mehrnaz tiv (مهرناز تیو)
Mehrnaz thinks characters should belly laugh when nothing is funny, stop talking mid-sentence because they forgot what they were saying, and reveal to us who we are when nobody's looking.
They believe in the magic of genderless sisterhood in all its pains, joys, and messes. She uses humor and complicated characters as her tools to dissect chaos, feelings, and the politics of existence. Her practice includes playwriting with her and her notebooks in her Brooklyn apartment, or devising with co-creators to dig into really juicy non-narrative storytelling.
Most recently, her play Squishy Emotional Insides was a 2024 Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Conference finalist. Their work has been developed with City Theatre, Asia Society, Noor Theatre, the Tank, the Women’s Theater Festival, Permafrost Theater Collective, Full Circle Theater Collaborative, and Breaking and Entering Theatre Collaborative. She is currently a member of the SWANA Writer’s Co-op at Playwright’s Horizons and TAG at the Tank.
BFA: New York University Tisch School of the Arts’ Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing. Member of the Dramatists Guild.
image by Farhad J Parsa
"Hey Shakespeare, have you heard of this writer Mehrnaz?"
"Yeah Mehrnaz is so cool and amazing wow yeah"
- A conversation you CAN'T prove is fake, because Shakespeare is DEAD