About Me
Guita Tahmassebi is a writer and makes multi- media productions. She has been a performance artist. She fled Iran, with her family, at the age of ten, to England. After finishing high school in UK, she entered USA. She earned her BA from Berkeley studying Intellectual European History. While attending Hasting college of Law, she studied modern dance, performance art and ritual theater. Her teachers in dance, improvisation and theater include Olivia Corson, Ruth Zaporah, the late Anna Halperin, Sarah Shelton Mann, Jess Curtis and Keith Hennessey.
She has been a recipient of a Rockefeller Map fund for her play, “What is Fatima going to do with her Hair”, that was debuted at Intersection for the Art in San Francisco and was directed by Jim Cave and Eric Ehn—the former head of playwriting and professor of theatre and performance studies at Brown University.
Guita is currently working on a new multi Media film/ video /theater piece, Black Out, based on a true historical event that occurred in July 2009, called Operation Blackout. After the brutal post-election crackdown of the Green Movement in the streets of Iran, some women decided, to stay inside, to protest. They used hairdryers and curling irons by turning all of them on at the same time. Their aim was an electricity blackout to cut Ahmadinejad’s televised presidency acceptance speech. Inside one of these houses is a dying mother, a dying hair dryer, and a daughter. Outside this house are thousands of demonstrators that are being brutally suppressed by the government forces. The footage is from You Tube and Twitter, uploaded by ordinary citizens, who became “citizen journalist” for the rest of the world, using social media that spread to Arab Spring, Occupy and now Turkey and Brazil. A surreal interplay of this micro and macro drama is explored
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