Dear Arts Chairs,
This spring Theatre will run a class in collaboration with the Art Department photography exhibition in the Leubsdorf Gallery “Speaking in Pairs”.
In this course students will make a short work of devised performance that will take place in the West Lobby.
The course will be taught by Deniz Khateri. Deniz would love to work with an interdisciplinary group of students to create this work.
Please share the attached flyer with students and/or faculty who might encourage specific students to enroll. This is a highly collaborative class and requires a committment in January prior to the start of the semester.
Please email Deniz with any questions- dk2476@hunter.cuny.edu
Thanks for your help promoting this!
All best,
Louisa
Bio:
Born and raised in Tehran, Deniz Khateri is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her work, which spans theater, experimental music-theater, and contemporary opera, engages with themes of memory, grief, immigration, and the concept of home, often exploring unconventional forms. Her plays have been showcased at national and international festivals, and her projects have received critical acclaim, with The Boston Globe calling her work “excellent,” Ewing Reviewing deeming it “remarkable on every level,” and Broadway World LA describing it as “fascinating.”
Deniz is one of LaMaMa’s 64th season resident artists. She is also the artist-in-residence at University Settlement’s performance project, a playwriting lab member at New York’s New Perspectives Theatre, and a former artist-in-residence at the Center at West Park. In 2024, she received one of the Al-Bustan Awards for her solo performance at the Philly Fringe Festival. Her work has earned numerous honors, including recognition from UNIMA-USA for “excellence in writing for the art of puppetry” and a NYSCA award for her project Husks from Iran. She was also awarded NYFA funding for her Oscar-qualified animated documentary web series Diasporan, for which she serves as writer, director, animator, and singer. Diasporan explores the daily lives and struggles of immigrants.
Deniz has performed extensively in Tehran and collaborated with prestigious theater companies in Boston and New York. She has designed and directed international productions, video art, and shadow puppetry for institutions such as Oper Frankfurt, Guerilla Opera, Dinosaur Annex, and Long Beach Opera. She holds an MA in Theater from the City University of New York and has trained with notable international artists, including Peter Brook, Richard Schechner, Paul Zaloom, and Poland’s Gardzienice Theatre Company. Deniz is also an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College of CUNY.