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Presence of an Absence 2025
2025-03-21 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
A staged reading presented on March 21, 2025 at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse. Set in Toronto (2024), Presence of an Absence follows a collective of emerging Iranian playwrights who gather to unearth and revisit early 20th-century works by women playwrights—tracing how censorship, inheritance, and displacement echo across time and into the present.
Producer: Aylin (Oyan) Salahshoor
Readers:

Parsa Hasanzadeh
Saghar Beheshti
Kosar Dhakilalian
Aylin Oyan Salahshoor

Far-Flung Peoples - Fringe 2024
2024-10-18 00:00 - 2024-11-13 23:59 | The Theater, 8 E 9th Street, Chicago, IL, 60605, United States
Written and performed by Michael Smith
Directed by John Doe
Artistic Producer: Matt Wilkins
Original Concept Dramaturgy: James Stevens
Dramaturg: Oliver Steals
Set Design: Marianna Lee
Lighting Design: Sandra Walsh

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Far-Flung Peoples - Fringe 2024
2024-07-05 08:00 - 2024-07-15 17:00
A bold and uproarious comedy-drama presented at the 2024 Toronto Fringe Festival, Far-Flung Peoples played from July 5 – 14, 2024 in the Alumnae Mainspace Theatre in Toronto.
Written and directed by Aylin (Oyan) Salahshoor, the play follows a group of refugee roommates navigating Toronto’s rent crisis and the absurdities of belonging, language, and survival in a cramped shared apartment. Multilingual humour, sharp political satire, and deeply human moments bring to life the joys and frustrations of diasporic life.
Producer: Amin Sheykhi
Production Manager: Naira Bahrami
Sound Design: Sina Shojai
Cast:

Aylin (Oyan) Salahshoor
Fadi Dalloul
Skylar Petrah
Parsa Hasanzadeh
Kimia Kalantari

Thematically rich, humorous, and collectively resonant, Far-Flung Peoples reflects on migration, community, identity, and the shared absurdities of housing instability, inviting both laughter and reflection.

Terrace 2020
2020-02-15 14:25
Terrace is a Toronto production presented in February 2020 at the Fairview Theatre Space, co-produced by Minor Punctuation Theatre and Zendegi Theatre Company.
Written by Jean-Claude Carrière and directed by Jafar Mahyari, the play was performed in Persian in a translation by Asghar Nouri.
An absurdist comedy with sharp political and philosophical undertones, Terrace brings together a group of characters suspended in conversation, memory, and anxiety—grappling with uncertainty, waiting, and the fragility of meaning in contemporary life. Blending realism with moments of surreal rupture, the production resonated strongly with diasporic audiences navigating displacement and precarity.
Premiering just weeks before global shutdowns in 2020, Terrace now reads as an uncannily prescient work—capturing a world poised on the edge, held together by language, irony, and collective unease.
Production Team

Producer: Amin Sheykhi
Production Manager: Aylin (Oyan) Salahshoor

Cast

Weria Havarinasab
Najla Azizi
Tannaz Qodrati
Sara Fallahi
Farzad Nazari-Moqaddam
Sorush Mahmudi
