Playwright, Director, Performer, Poet and Scholar

reimagining personal stories

Meet Proshot Kalami

Biography

Proshot Kalami, an artist practitioner and scholar, an Associate Professor in Performance Studies and Media Studies and has held multiple international fellowships and won multiple awards for her plays and installations. She is a playwright, theatre director, dramaturg, documentary filmmaker, radio drama director and voice actor. She is a published poet and a visual artist whose works have been translated in different languages. Her installations and plays have been staged and toured in the UK, Italy, Germany, France, Morocco and various cities in the US. Her scholarly publications are in the field of Film Studies and Performance Studies with special focus on the interaction of the body and technology in works of the artists from the Global South cultures. She publishes in English and Farsi and additionally speaks French and German. She has basic knowledge of Bengali and reading knowledge of Arabic.

Publications, Productions, Awards

InstalLations, Plays & Radio Drama

Multimedia Installations

Feel Me 6 Feet Apart

Feel Me 6 Feet Apart, an art-placemaking interactive multimedia installation based on experiences and personal stories of the First Responders, Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery, Pao Art Centre & Bunker Hill Community College campus, 1 October 2021 - 25 May 2022

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Multimedia Installations

The Invisible

A multimedia durational art-placemaking installation sponsored by Pat Art Centre, Boston Chinatown Neighbourhood and Mary L. (Director-Designer) National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking Award, “The Invisible, a multimedia installation” & “Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits Northeastern Corridor”

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Multimedia Installations

Memories in Pieces

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Original Plays

Multimedia Installations

The Two of Us

Episode 1

The Two of Us, a trilogy: Episode 1, (playwright, dramaturg, director, actor), a Radio Drama production with international cast and crew from Australia and Iran.

Sponsored by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, and Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery. Imagining America, 20th National Gathering, Albuquerque, NM 2019

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Original Plays

The Two of Us

Episode 2

The Two of Us, a trilogy: Episode 2, (playwright, dramaturg, director, & voice actor), a Radio Drama production with international cast and crew from Australia and Iran, sponsored by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, and Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery.

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Original Plays

I Tell You My Story, You Tell Me Yours

playwright
dramaturg
director

I Tell You My Story, You Tell Me Yours: a collaborative co-created Radio Drama production with international cast and crew from Loughborough University and Stanford University.

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Plays

Original Lyrics for All Women Music Project

Original Plays

Persians

Persians by Kaite O’Reilly, Ted Hughes Award winner for New Works in Poetry (director and dramaturg), a Radio Drama

https://youtu.be/aBoAvHVtXgg

Scene 2: Queens

Original Plays

Original Lyrics for All Women Music Project

Original Plays

All Their Names

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Stage Production: an Audience Participatory Staged performance, Imagining America National Gathering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 14-16 October

Radio Drama production: a collaboration with Stanford University, Selected by French Cultural Centre for the Inauguration Ceremony of the New French Cultural President, May

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Original Lyrics for All Women Music Project

A String Only She Could Play

A Poem to Marina Abramovitz #1,"

poems by Proshot Kalami
music by Johann L. Dussek
music arrangement: Felice Pomeranz, based on Johann L. Dussek's work
voice: Riikka Pietiläinen Caffrey
harp: Felice Pomeranz

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Book Translation

Archive: Select Videos, Presentations and Public Appearances

Original Lyrics for All Women Music Project

Art as Therapy, (Translation to Farsi), Edited: de Botton, Alain, John Armstrong,

Nashr Hanouz, Tehran, Iran

2016

Archive: Select Videos, Presentations and Public Appearances

Garage Theatre: Death of Yazdgerd:
https://youtu.be/JIHoudOkDw0
https://youtu.be/x41ecENMsfw
Barbican: Man of the Heart
https://youtu.be/rrnt-3R6Lj0
Videography/Director of Camera: For Len Dixon
https://youtu.be/oOJT_VGqov8
Women History Month: A String Only She Could Play: https://bhcc.digication.com/whm2021/a-string-only-she-could-play
Public

Garage Theatre: Death of Yazdgerd:
https://youtu.be/JIHoudOkDw0
https://youtu.be/x41ecENMsfw
Barbican: Man of the Heart
https://youtu.be/rrnt-3R6Lj0
Videography/Director of Camera: For Len Dixon
https://youtu.be/oOJT_VGqov8
Women History Month: A String Only She Could Play: https://bhcc.digication.com/whm2021/a-string-only-she-could-play
Public Safety Working Group (PSWG): https://shorturl.at/dkqJ2
Poets Who Are Still Alive: http://old.alef.ir/vdce7v8enjh8vwi.b9bj.html?488205
Everlasting Poets; Persian Poetry in the 90s: http://anahid7.blogfa.com/post/129
Dialogue, a poem: http://leilasadeghi.com/others-works/others-poem/242-dialogue
The Most Painful Pains of the World; a poem: http://leilasadeghi.com/others-works/others-poem/494-kalami2
Cultural and Humanities Research Anthology: https://ensani.ir/fa/article/author/132066

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Welcome to Proshot Kalami's publications

Directory of Iranian Cinema

“No One Know About Persian Cinema, a Review of No One Knows about Persian Cats,” Directory of Iranian Cinema, Vol. 2, edited by Parviz Jahed, Intellect Books, London, March (pp. 345-352)

Alternative Dramaturgies

Directory of Iranian Cinema

“Dramaturgy of Persian Plays in the West: The Problematic of History, Religion and Cross-Cultural Performance”, Alternative Dramaturgies of the New Millennium in Arabo-Islamic Contexts and Beyond, Collaborative Media International, Amherst, Denver, Tangier, April (pp. 121-135)

Performance Research

Directory of Iranian Cinema

Performance Research

“‘Persian Hippolyte’: Interweaving performance cultures, interweaving identity, and hybrid technology”, for Research Centre for Interweaving Performance Cultures, Freie Universität Berlin, Performance Research Journal RPRS, Taylor & Francis/Routledge, May

Iran Namag

The International Journal of the Humanities

Performance Research

“Love on the Iranian Screen”, Iran Namag, Special Issue on Abbas Kiarostami, University of Toronto, Canada, Winter 2018 (Volume 2, Number 4, pp. 58-74)

Cinemascope

The International Journal of the Humanities

“Fear and Trembling: The Persian Screen at the Crossroad of Faith”, Cinemascope, Independent Film Journal: Landscape of Revolt, Year IX, Issue 19, July-December

The International Journal of the Humanities

“Queer, Persian and Diasporic: Engaging with the Gay Art of Siros Arya”, The International Journal of the Humanities, Common Ground Publishing, May

Iranian Studies

“A Report on the British Premier of Death of Yazdgerd: A Cross-cultural Adaptation?” Iranian Studies, Routledge, August (Volume 45, Number 4, pp. 791-810)

Cinemascope

Iranian Studies

“No One Knows About Persian Cinema: B. Ghobadi’s Songscape of Revolt”, Cinemascope, Independent Film Journal: Landscape of Revolt, Year VII, Issue 16, July-December

Cinemascope

Iranian Studies

Persian Poetry

“Thou Shalt Forget Not Thy Past: Interrogating (Euro-)Polish Identity in Decalogue VIII,” Cinemascope: Hundred of Ways to See a Film—The Intersubjectivity of Film Appreciation, The Decalogue by Krzysztof Kieslowski, (Volume 4, Issue 11)