AZADEH GANJEH

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Azadeh Ganjeh is a performer, performance artist activist, dramaturge, and scholar born in Tehran-Iran. She holds a Master's degree in Theater Directing from Tehran Art University. In 2017, she completed her Doctorate in Philosophy-Theatre Studies at Bern University. Remaining connected to her homeland through creating theatre and performances, Azadeh returned to Tehran and assumed a professorship at the School of Performing Arts, Tehran University. In her role, she serves as both a professor and coordinator of the Acting/Directing department. Alongside her teaching commitments, she initiated structural reforms and guided the curriculum review for Directing and Acting. Since April 2022, she has been a researcher and lecturer at the University of Hildesheim, Institut für Medien, Theater und Populäre Kultur. She also lectures in sessions or seasonally at various higher education institutions, including HFMDK, HBK Braunschweig, UDK, Universität zu Köln, LMU, Mozartuem University Salzburg and ADK all while maintaining the artistic career of her performance collective. Azadeh specializes in creating spaces of appearance through performing Arts, participatory performances, performative interventions in urban public spaces, immersive theater productions, and community theater for social-political empowerment. Her research interests encompass the performativity of the body in public events, politics of space and aesthetics of performativity, emancipation through performing arts, and activism in performance art.