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About

Hossein Tavazoni is a performance maker, researcher, and educator based in Groningen, with active artistic and research ties to Tehran. His work brings together Cultural Memory Studies, film, and performance. He explores how images and stories shape memories of the past and of place, with a particular interest in archives, heritage, remembering, and forgetting.

Hossein’s portfolio includes award-winning stage productions, site-based projects, and online performances. Three of his productions received consecutive awards in the Experimental Theatre section of the International Fadjr Theatre Festival: Best Play for The Butterfly at the 33rd edition (2017), Best Performance for Narges at the 34th edition (2018), and Best Play for The Elephant (Aras) at the 35th edition (2019).

Alongside directing and artistic research, Hossein has taught and led workshops at universities and theatre institutions in Iran, the Netherlands, and France. He has also collaborated as a writer, dramaturge, and performer on a range of theatre and film productions.

Drawing on his series of site-based performances in Tehran during the 2010s, Hossein completed his PhD at the University of Groningen, focusing on Iranian memory culture. Working with Julian Hanich and Eleftheria Ioannidou, his research examined how media and fiction shape the cultural memory of everyday spaces, and how these spaces acquire emotional meaning. He holds a master’s degree in Film Studies from Sooreh University in Iran. His thesis explored how Iranian site-based theatre uses filmic language to shape the experience of architectural space.

Hossein regularly presents his work at international conferences, public talks, and community engagement events. Through these presentations, he brings artistic practice and scholarly research together to explore questions of cultural memory, media, space, and performance.