Haleh Roshan
Haleh Roshan is an Iranian American writer with peripheral neuropathy (CMT). Her work fuses leftist politics with intercultural narratives to challenge global capitalist power structures and trouble c... Read more
Haleh Roshan is an Iranian American writer with peripheral neuropathy (CMT). Her work fuses leftist politics with intercultural narratives to challenge global capitalist power structures and trouble conceptions of individual identity and ability. Plays include A PLAY TITLED AFTER THE COLLECTIVE NOUN FOR FEMALE-IDENTIFYING 20-SOMETHINGS LIVING IN NYC IN THE 2010S, about leftist women during the 2016 Democratic Primaries (2019 Corkscrew Festival); FREE FREE FREE FREE (2018 O'Neill NPC Finalist; Exponential Festival), chronicling the successes and failures of the Diggers, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Black Panthers; REVERENCE, a retelling of the founding years of the Joffrey Ballet examining the relationship between art and money (Tom Kirdahy Productions); and OUR MOTHERS, THE GHOST STORY, a (literally) haunting story about the personal consequences of geopolitical borders. Pilots include BELLWETHER (2016 Austin Film Festival Second-Round Semi-Finalist) and THE LEGITIMATE, about women in the theater in the 1930s and '40s (AFF Second-Rounder; Screen Craft Quarter Finalist). Her fiction has appeared in online literary journals and been read at Mellow Pages, KGB, Pacific Standard, and others. BA/MA: NYU Gallatin. halehroshan.com