Shadi Ghaheri
Adjunct Instructor
Shadi G is a theatre, opera, film director, choreographer and performer from Iran based in New York City. She has
directed, Extinctionist (Heartbeat Opera) In the Stillness of Night (The Tank), English (Alliance Theatre), Tosca
(Heartbeat Opera), Selling Kabul (Signature Theatre), Threshold of Brightness (BMP), Memorial (NYU Tisch),
Banned, (Broadway Bound), Glimpse (Rattlestick Theatre), Lucretia (HERE), Death of Yazdgerd (Yale School of
Drama). Shadi received his MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama, where she co-curated Yale Summer
Cabaret 2017. She co-founded/co-curated the Emruz Festival. Shadi was Rattlestick Theatre Directing Fellow 2018,
as well as 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and the winner of Robert L.B. Tobin Showcase 2019.
Shadighaheri.com