About the Artist

Deniz is an Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her works experiment with form and they focus on memory, grief, immigration and the concept of home. Her plays have been performed in several national and international festivals. She has written and directed experimental music-theater projects that challenge the status quo and current vernacular of the theater and modern opera scene. Her opera Salt '' has been acclaimed as remarkable on every level(Ewing Reviewing). A former resident artist at Center at West Park and resident playwright at the New Perspectives theater womens short lab, she has also designed and directed international shows, video arts and shadow puppetry visuals for companies such as OperFrankfurt, Guerilla Opera, Dinosaur Annex, and Long Beach Opera.Holding an MA in Theater from City University of New York, she has trained in master classes with prominent international artists including Peter Brook, Paul Zaloom and Gardzienice theater company of Poland. She is an adjunct lecturer at Hunter college and Queens borough community college of CUNY. Deniz has performed extensively in her hometown Tehran as well as on stages of prominent theater companies of Boston and New York.Awarded by UNIMA-USA for excellence in writing for the art of puppetry she has been the recipient of NYSCA award for her new project Husks from Iran, as well as the NYFA fund for her Oscar-qualified documentary animated web series, Diasporan, for which she is the writer, director, animator and singer and explores the daily struggles of immigrants. (www.denizkhateri.com). Bahar Royaee, Composer: Bahar Royaee has been acclaimed as succeed(ing) as a poetic incantation, brimming with ideas and colors (Classical Voice North America) and haunting (Boston Arts Review). Working in NYC and Boston, Bahar has received a Fromm Music Foundation Commission (2022), as well as honors such as the Pnea, National Sawdust Hildegard, the Roger Session Memorial Compositi

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