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
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”
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
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.
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.
Plays
Persians
Persians by Kaite O’Reilly, Ted Hughes Award winner for New Works in Poetry (director and dramaturg), a Radio Drama
Original Plays
All Their Names
- playwright
- dramaturg
- director
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
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
Book Translation
Art as Therapy, (Translation to Farsi), Edited: de Botton, Alain, John Armstrong,
Nashr Hanouz, Tehran, Iran
2016
Archive: Select Videos, Presentations and Public Appearances
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
Interactive multimedia installation: She, Her, and I; a fleeting story
She, Her and I; a fleeting story
an audience participatory multimedia installation
by
Proshot Kalami
March 2024
Pao Arts Center, Boston MA
Multimedia Installation: The Invisible
Paiting-Poetry exhibition: an ar-plae-making show: Memories in Pieces, 2019
Memories in Pieces
a painting-poetry exhibition
by
Proshot Kalami
Autumn 2019
Welcome to Proshot Kalami's publications
Books and Edited Volume
2026 Kalami, Proshot, Aiden Condron, and Evi Stamatiou. “Special issue: Performer Training in English as an Additional Language”, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (TDPT 2250679), Taylor & Francis/Routledge. Issue 17, vol. 2, June
2025 Kalami, Proshot, and Sukanya Chakrabarti. Theatre Topics, vol. 35, no. 2, July 2025, Johns Hopkins University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55164/print.
2014 Kalami, Proshot. Iran’s Reel Spectre: The Cinematic Story of a Nation. Seagull Books, 2014. ISBN: 978-0857421104.
Book Chapters in Drama and Film & Rhetoric
2025 “The Seed of the Sacred Art: Mohammad Rasoulof’s Dreams for All.” Cinema Iranica, Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, ISSN 3064-9617, September. https://cinema.iranicaonline.org/article/the-seed-of-the-sacred-art-mohammad-rasoulofs-dreams-for-all/.
2024 “Futurist Androgynes, Persian Ironies; an interview with Rah Eleh”, Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia North Africa from Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East, Series Editors: Mohammad Gharipour and Christiane Gruber, Intellect Books, Bristol, UK. September
2017 “No One Knows 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.
2015 “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.
Select Journal Articles
2025 “Soudabeh Desires, Gender Performativity and Performance of Gender; from ancient mythology to present street performances.” Margins/Marges/Margini, Vol. 3, November. 2025, https://mimesisjournals.com (DOI 10.7413/2974-9549034)
2025 Kalami, Proshot and Sukanya Chakrabarti. “A Note from the Editors: Whose Story? Resisting and Reimagining Master Narratives.” Theatre Topics, vol. 35, no. 2,
2025, pp. 89–92. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tt.2025.a965106.
2023 Kalami, Proshot, and Rouzbeh Hosseini. “‘And Suddenly…!’/ A Director for All Seasons.”
Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (TDPT 2250679), Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
2021 “‘Persian Hippolyte’: Interweaving Performance Cultures, Interweaving Identity, and Hybrid Technology.” Performance Research Journal (RPRS), Freie Universität Berlin, Taylor & Francis/Routledge, May.
2018 “Love on the Iranian Screen”, Iran Namag, Special Issue on Abbas Kiarostami, University of Toronto, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter 2018, pp. 58–74.
2018 “Persian Hippolytus: Topology of Hybrid Performance Cultures, Hybrid Identity, and Hybrid Technology”, Bodies on Stage: Acting Confronted by Technology, Archée avec Conseil des arts du Canada & Sorbonne Nouvelle 3, Quebec/Paris, October
2013 “Fear and Trembling: The Persian Screen at the Crossroad of Faith”, Cinemascope, Independent Film Journal: Landscape of Revolt, Year IX, Issue 19, July-December
2013 “A Report on the British Premier of Death of Yazdgerd: A Cross-Cultural Adaptation?” Iranian Studies, Routledge, vol. 45, no. 4, Aug. 2013, pp. 791–810.
2012 “Queer, Persian and Diasporic: Engaging with the Gay Art of Siros Arya”, The International Journal of the Humanities, Common Ground Publishing, May
2011 “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
2009 “Iranian Cinema and/in the Global Context.” Weber Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 138–152.
2008 “Occidental Interest, Oriental Silence: Who Is Iranian Cinema Speaking To?” The International Journal of the Humanities, Common Ground Publishing, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 37–46.
2008 “Thou Shalt Forget Not Thy Past: Interrogating (Euro-)Polish Identity in Decalogue VIII.” Cinemascope: Hundred Ways to See a Film—The Intersubjectivity of Film Appreciation, The Decalogue by Krzysztof Kieslowski, vol. 4, issue 11.
Books in Farsi
2016 Kalami, Proshot, translator. Art as Therapy. By Alain de Botton and John Armstrong, translated into Farsi, Nashr Hanouz, Tehran
2004 La‘l Badakhsh لعل بدخش. (Poetry)Nashr Ghatrehقطره, Tehran. ISBN-10: 9643415171. ISBN-13: 978-9643415174.
2001 Daftar e Doori دفتر دوری. (Poetry)Nashr Khat Sevomخط سوم, Tehran, Iran. ISBN-10: 9646866379. ISBN-13: 978-9646866379.
Select Farsi Poems and Journal Articles
2025 3 Poems for “No to Execution of Political Prisoners in Iran”, Vazn-e Donya وزندنیا. Vol 36. July 2025, vaznedonya.ir/Mags/41. July
2025 “209” دویست و نه, for Poetry of Life Against Executions in Iran شعر زندگی در برابر اعدام, Radio Zamaneh and Sahregan رادیو زمانه و شهرگان آنلاین, https://shahrgon.com/2025/178623/, 26 May.
2023 “For Shams” برای شمس, and “What About Literary History?” پس تاریخ ادبیات چه, Baang بانگ, Vol. 312, September
2023 “For Shams” برای شمس, a spoken poem Vazn-e Donya وزندنیا. https://vaznedonya.ir/Audio/341, September
2023 2 poems on Woman Life Freedom movement Vazn-e Donya وزندنیا. Vol. 26, 2023, March
2023 3 poems, Women Protest Poetry, Edited Volume, Aftab آفتاب Publication, Oslo
2023 2 Poems, Shahrgan شهرگان, British Columbia, Canada. 10 March, Vol. 30. No. 1632,
pp. 74-76
2021 2 poems on Women and Immigration, Vazn-e Donya وزندنیا., Vol 14. 2021, March
2020 Shaerane Faraman: کتاب شاعران فرامن برگزیده شعر پیشرو زنان معاصر. Edited by Davoudi Hamouleh, S. Sīb Sorkh سیب سرخPublication. Tehran. ISBN 978-6226442626.
2016 “Epicurus, the Foodies’ Philosopher”, Food and Philosophy, (Translation to Farsi),
Edited: Allhoff, Fritz, Dave Monroe, Nashr Hanouz, Tehran, Iran
2004 “On Iranian Poets in the 21st Century”, Shukah Publication شوکا, Tehran, Iran
Persian Poetry
Cross-Sectoral, co-collaborative multimedia performance: The Impossible
