Västerbottensteatern's dramaturge Tora von Platen talks to actor and writer Zinat Pirzadeh and artist, director and playwright Nasim Aghili about artistic courage, strategies to achieve social change and the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in Iran.
In the fall of 2025, Zinat and Nasim work at Västerbottensteatern with the production "When Zinat came to the village" with premiere on October 25th in Jörn.
Zinat Pirzadeh is an award-winning Iranian-Swedish artist, writer, actor, comedian, lecturer and human rights activist. She was born in the city of Sari in the province of Mazandaran in northern Iran and was a summer presenter on Swedish Radio P1 in 2007 and a winter host on P1 in 2021.
Nasim Aghili is a director, playwright and artist with 20 years of experience in performance, theater installations, music theater and participatory performing arts that often deal with experiences of existing and living in various forms of exile - usually in the form of healing rituals.
