Parsa Pirouzfar

Parsa Pirouzfar (Persian: پارسا پیروزفر) is an Iranian actor, theatre director, painter, playwright, and translator. He is best known for his role in In the Eyes of the Wind (2009–2010), and Mum's Guest (2004). He has received various accolades, including a Hafez Award and an Iran Cinema Celebration Award, in addition to a nomination for a Crystal Simorgh.

Parsa Pirouzfar
Pirouzfar in 2013
Born	Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	University of Tehran
Occupations	Actor playwright theatre director painter translator
Years active	1994–present

Early life and education

Parsa Pirouzfar was born Tehran, Iran.^{[citation needed]}

From 1984 to 1990, when he was in high school, he created his first comic strips.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Having graduated from high school with maths and physics majors in 1990, he started his academic studies in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran in 1991. In the same year, he also started acting on stage in different university plays.^{[citation needed]}

Pirouzfar also worked as a voice-over actor from 1993 to 1997. His first film role came at the age of 22 in 1994, playing a brief part in Dariush Mehrjui's Pari.^{[citation needed]} In the same year, he studied “Stanislavsky's acting method” under acting instructor Mahin Oskouei, the Iranian theater director and instructor, and Iran's pioneering female theatre arts figure.^[6]

In 1995, he continued his studies in acting at Samandarian Institute of Dramatic Arts^{[7][better source needed]} under renowned Iranian film and theatre director, translator, and acting instructor Hamid Samandarian.^{[citation needed]} His stage debut was in the same year. He performed in Les Misérables directed by Behrouz Gharibpour, Iranian theatre director and pioneer of traditional Persian puppet theatre, and played as Marius Pontmercy.^{[citation needed]}

Having graduated with a bachelor's degree from Tehran University's Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1997, he performed in The Lady Aoi by Yukio Mishima, directed by Bahram Beyzaie, playing the role of Hikaru. This was his second official appearance on the stage of the theatre.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Pirouzfar officially started working on his own personal projects for the stage in 2001, and he made his directional debut in theatre with Art, a play by Yasmina Reza.^{[citation needed]}

Matryoshka

In 2015 Pirouzfar directed the play Matryoshka, a Persian-language satire based on selected short stories of Anton Chekhov, translated, written, and directed by Parsa Pirouzfar. Matryoshka premiered on 13 September 2015 at Theatre West, as a solo performance, in Los Angeles. The play has over 30 characters^[8] all performed by Pirouzfar in its theatrical production. Matryoshka subsequently ran for two years in the US cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Berkeley as well as Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal in Canada in 2015 and 2016; and finally, after multiple performances due to its immense popularity, finished its staging in Tehran in 2017.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

Matryoshka was particularly important to Pirouzfar's career. His performance, playing over 30 characters of the play all by himself, earned him the Golden Statue Award for Best Actor in the 35th Celebration of the annual Fajr International Theatre Festival in Tehran in 2017.^[14]

Teaching

Pirouzfar gave acting courses as a theatre instructor at Karnameh Institute of Arts and Culture from 2004 to 2005^{[15][better source needed]} as well as in extracurricular acting classes at Allameh Tabatabaie University in 2004 and 2005 and at Hilaj Film School in 2007, 2010, and 2011.^{[citation needed][16]}

Other teaching work includes:

• Freelance Workshops and Acting Classes^{[17][18][19][20]}
• Extracurricular Acting Classes of Allameh Tabatabaie University, 2004–2005
• Karnameh Institute of Arts and Culture,^[21] 2004–2005

Other work

Since graduation from high school, Pirouzfar has also been involved periodically in sculpture, graphic design, and making teasers.^{[citation needed]}

Other activities and memberships

Pirouzfar is a founder member of Iranian Theatre Actors Association,^[22] member of Khaneh Cinema (Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds), member of Iranian Film Actors Association (I.F.A.A.), and The Theatre Forum.^{[citation needed]}

Other memberships include:^{[citation needed]}

• Iranian Theatre Actors Association, founder member
• Khaneh Cinema (The Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds)
• Iranian Film Actors Association (I.F.A.A.)
• Iranian Theatre Actors Association
• Theatre Forum

Pirouzfar has been a member of the following film festival juries:^{[citation needed]}

• 9th Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA), 2020
• 14th Celebration of Khaneh Cinema (Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds), 2010
• 10th Celebration of Khaneh Cinema (Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds), 2001
• 9th Celebration of Khaneh Cinema (Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds), 2000

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Ref(s)
1992	The Status	College Student	Ebrahim Vahidzadeh
1995	Pari	Eremitic Man	Dariush Mehrjui
1996	The Feast	Abed	Masoud Kimiai
1998	Mercedes	Yahya	Masoud Kimiai
1999	Girls in Expectancy	Saeed Masrour	Rahman Rezaei
	Sheida	Farhad Harandi	Kamal Tabrizi
2000	Protest	Ghasem	Masoud Kimiai		[23]
2000	A Girl Named Tondar	Ra'ad	Hamid Reza Ashtianipour
2002	The Lucky Bride	Injaneb	Kazem Rastgoftar
2003	The Time of Harvesting the Walnuts	Latif Kashani	Iraj Emami
2004	Mum's Guest	Yousef	Dariush Mehrjui
	The Tear of the Cold	Kaveh Kiani	Azizollah Hamidnezhad
	Late at Night		Asghar Naimi	Short film, unreleased
2005	Mask	Nima	Kazem Rastgoftar
	The Unwanted Woman	Rahim	Tahmineh Milani
2009	The Day Goes and the Night Comes	Farrokh	Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi
2011	Here Without Me	Reza	Bahram Tavakoli
	Absolutely Tame Is a Horse	Borzou	Abdolreza Kahani
2014	Life Is Elsewhere	Ali	Manouchehr Hadi
2015	Gap	Farhad	Kiarash Asadizadeh
	Closer	Ehsan	Mostafa Ahmadi		[24]
2019	Numbness	Shahrokh	Hossein Mahkam		[25]
2020	Titi	Ebrahim	Ida Panahandeh		[26]
	No Choice	Dr. Sa'adat	Reza Dormishian		[27]
2024	Intoxicated by Love	Rumi	Hassan Fathi		[28]

Web

Year	Title	Role	Director	Platform	Notes	Ref(s)
2022	Rebel	Bahman Kazemi	Mohammad Kart	Filimo	Main role	[29]
2024	At the End of the Night	Behnam Afshar	Ida Panahandeh	Filmnet	Main role	[30]
TBA	White Magic		Ida Panahandeh	Filimo	Main role	[31]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Network	Ref(s)
1995	Under Your Protection	Parsa Farzinpour	Hamid Labkhandeh	TV series	IRIB TV2	[32]
1998	In My Heart	Reza Toloui	Hamid Labkhandeh	TV series	IRIB TV3	[33]
2002	The Green Journey	Daniel Wessberg	Mohammad Hossein Latifi	TV series	IRIB TV3	[34]
2009–2010	In the Eye of the Wind	Bijan Irani	Masoud Jafari Jozani	TV series	IRIB TV1	[35]

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Director	Playwright	Translator	Notes
2019	The Visit[36][37]	Schoolmaster	Parsa Pirouzfar	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	Parsa Pirouzfar
2018	Les Misérables[38][39]	Jean Valjean	Hossein Parsaei	Victor Hugo		(Musical)
2018	A Summer's Day[40][41]	Mof	Parsa Pirouzfar	Slawomir Mrozek	Parsa Pirouzfar Sepideh Khosrowjah
2015-2017	Matryoshka[9][10][11][12][13][8][42]	All of the Characters	Parsa Pirouzfar	Parsa Pirouzfar (based on selected short stories of Anton Chekhov)	Parsa Pirouzfar	Golden Statue Award for Best Actor in the 35th Celebration of annual Fajr International Theatre Festival (2017)[43][44] The play has over 30 characters performed by the playwright and theatre director Parsa Pirouzfar in its theatrical production.
2014	Out at Sea[45][46]	Fat Castaway	Parsa Pirouzfar	Slawomir Mrozek	Parsa Pirouzfar
2013	Stones In His Pockets[47][48]	In 10 role: Charlie Conlon, Jake Quinn, Aisling, third A.D., Mickey, Caroline Giovanni (American star), John (accent coach), Sean Harkin, Dave (a crew member), Sean Harkin (twelve years), Sean Harkin (eight years), Sean’s cousin, Kevin Doherty (Interviewer).	Parsa Pirouzfar	Marie Jones	Parsa Pirouzfar
2012	God of Carnage	Alan Raleigh	Parsa Pirouzfar	Yasmina Reza		Stage reading
2011	Glengarry Glen Ross[49]	Richard Roma	Parsa Pirouzfar	David Mamet	Parsa Pirouzfar
2001	'Art'[50]	Marc	Parsa Pirouzfar	Yasmina Reza	‌Bahman Kijarostami
1998	The Lady Aoi	Hikaru	Bahram Beyzaie	Yukio Mishima	Bahram Beyzaie	By Bahram Beyzai production
1995-1997	Les Misérables	Marius Pontmercy	Behrouz Gharibpour	Victor Hugo	Behrouz Gharibpour

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Nominated Work	Result	Ref.
China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival	2006	Best Actor in a Foreign Film	The Tear of the Cold	Won
Fajr Film Festival	2004	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Mum's Guest	Nominated
Fajr International Theater Festival	2017	Best Actor	Matryoshka	Won
Hafez Awards	2005	Best Actor – Motion Picture	Mum's Guest	Nominated
	2011	Best Actor – Television Series Drama	In the Eyes of the Wind	Nominated
	2023	Best Actor – Motion Picture	Titi	Nominated	[51]
	2024	Best Actor – Television Series Drama	At the End of the Night	Won	[52]
Iran Cinema Celebration	1999	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Sheida	Nominated
	2000	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Protest	Nominated
	2004	Best Actor in a Leading Role	The Tear of the Cold	Nominated
		Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Mum's Guest	Won
Jam-e-Jam Television Festival	2010	Favorite Actor in a Television Series	In the Eyes of the Wind	Won
Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema	2005	Best Actor – Asian and Arab Competition	The Tear of the Cold	Won