Bio

Joan Nahid is an Iranian writer, actor, and voice artist based in Chicago. She is a graduate of the University of Tehran with a B.S in Industrial Engineering, an M.A in Entrepreneurship management, and an MFA in Theatre and dramatic literature. After moving to the United States she continued her training in acting and physical theatre at Vagabond School of Art, Green Room Studio, and The Second City where she graduated from the acting lab conservatory.

Education:

2015-2016: Certificate in Acting and Physical Theatre, Second City Acting lab Conservatory, Chicago, United States.

2012-2014: MFA in Theatre & Dramatic literature, University of Tehran, Fine Art Faculty.

2007-2011: MA in Entrepreneurship Management, University of Tehran.

2002-2006: BS in Industrial Engineering, University of Science & Technology, Tehran.

Publication:

• Wild Dream (Collection of Short stories), Persian Edition, Vara (Bootimar) Publication, Tehran.2019

  
  

• June Night (Collection of Short stories), Persian Edition,Create space independent publishing, United States. 2017.

Theatre & Performance Experience:

2024- Unknown Variable: Momantary Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2024-Mother Courgae and Her Children: Trap Door Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2023- Moment of Silence (Staged reading): Timeline Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2023-Princess Ivona: Trap Door Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2022- Man Of the People: Stage Left Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2022- Antigone: Redtwist Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2022- 7 Minutes (Staged reading): Waterwell Theatre, Chicago Labornotes Conference, United States.

2020 (Cancelled/ Covid) - My Dear Hussein: Silk Road Rising, Chicago, United States.

2019- Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: Oak Park Festival Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2019-Living Coral: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States.

2019- Tango: Trap Door Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2018- The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: First Folio Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2018- The locketeer: Trap Door Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2017- The House Of Bernarda Alba: Saint Sebastien Players, Chicago, United States.

2017-The Malta Play: Artemisia Theatre, Chicago, United States.

2017-Ivanov: One Year Chekhov Theatre Company, Chicago, United States.

2017-Oddities: Second City, Chicago, United States.

2016-Mot Juste: On The Spot Theatre Company, Chicago, United States.

2015-The Catch: On the Spot Theatre Company, Chicago, United States.

2015-The Bacchae: Saltbox Theatre Company, Chicago, United States.

Achievement:

2019- Mary Scruggs scholarship on writing program, Second City, Chicago, United States.

2017- M.E.H. Lewis scholarship on Playwriting, Chicago Dramatists, Chicago, United States.

Skills:

Languages:(English, Farsi, French, Intermediate Italian - Reads Arabic), Modern Dance, Contemporary Dance, Voice Over, Unarmed Stage Combat, Butoh dance, mask and Puppetry.