Nazanin Noori (Persian: نازنین نوری ; IPO: [ˈnɑːzəniːn ˈnʊəri/]) is an Iranian stage director, writer, producer and selector that lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt.
In installations, radio and theater plays, she makes the fusion of sound, space, sculpture and postdramatic poetry her subject of discussion. Her work has been staged at Deutsches Theater Berlin and Schauspiel Hannover.
The former content director of Bedouin Records hosts 'POMP', a sound scenario series on Malmö-based Retreat Radio. Her music extends across Esoterica, Dark Ambient, Drones and Sound Poetry.
CURRENT
November 6, 2019
'Regime of Love' is a play by Tanja Šljivar that was premiered at the 6th of November 2019 at Deutsches Theater Berlin. The German premiere was directed by Nazanin Noori.
https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/a-z/regime-der-liebe/
October 17, 2019
'PEEL.CX' is a network for advanced musical exchange from Tokyo to Berlin. With Scattered Purgatory and Hikari Sakashita, Nazanin Noori performs soundscapes at ACUD CLUB in Berlin.
October 13, 2019
'POMP' is a sound scenario series by Nazanin Noori on Retreat Radio, an independent Malmö-based radio station. The series is broadcast monthly. A podcast that descents into the backdoor of the pompous. With Esoterica, Sound Poetry and Acid Folk.
THE DARKNESS RETURNS.
https://www.retreatradio.net/pomp
https://soundcloud.com/retreatradio/pomp-1
https://soundcloud.com/retreatradio/pomp-2
https://soundcloud.com/retreatradio/pomp-3
https://soundcloud.com/retreatradio/pomp-4
https://soundcloud.com/retreatradio/pomp-5
October 12, 2019
'CENTER SHIFT #1' is the first episode of a series by Cemile Sahin. Nazanin Noori and Salem Rashid have produced the score for this work that is recently shown at the Ars Viva exhibition in the GFZK in Leipzig.
October 01, 2019
'TAXI' will be published in October 2019 by Korbinian Verlag. Korbinian Verlag is a Berlin-based book publishing house. Nazanin Noori and Katharina Holzmann are currently editing 'TAXI', a novel by Cemile Sahin, that makes re-enactment, history, repetition and loss a subject of discussion.
June 15, 2019
Nazanin Noori has recorded a DJ mix for Blissing Persons, a bi-monthly online radio program from Philadelphia that is curated by sound experimentalist David Coccagna, also known as Chaperone, in which layers of Noise, Drone, Esoterica and Sound Poetry merge into a psychedelic sound scenario.
https://soundcloud.com/blissingpersons/blissing-persons-mx06-nazanin-noori
CV
Nazanin Noori was born in Germany in 1991. She is the daughter of Hamid Noori and Mahboobeh Moushidi.
DIRECTOR
11 / 2019
Production: Regime Of Love (Regime der Liebe) by Tanja Šljivar at Deutsches Theater Berlin, Box.
A post-apocalyptic story. The last human being and two probands try out emotional violence. There is no voice of reason, but a regime of love that regains its power by choreographing a fight. Without society. All actors celebrate the new love.
Director, Music: Nazanin Noori
Stage and Costume Designers: Carla Satoca Berges, Vanessa Vadineanu
Dramaturgy: David Heiligers
Animation: Lukas Kühleitner
Assistant Director: Nora Auerbach, Marike Flömer
Assistant Stage and Costume Designer: Zoë Hoellerer
With Caner Sunar, Jan Breustedt, Maral Keshavarz and Edgar Eckert.
https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/a-z/regime-der-liebe/
Sponsoring by Dyson GmbH. Pictures by Julia Maria Klotz.
REGIME OF LOVE
04 / 2018
Production: Venus And Adonis (Venus und Adonis) based on the dramatic poem by William Shakespeare, adapted by Nazanin Noori at Deutsches Theater Berlin, Box.
Mars has a drinking problem. He is left by his beloved. Venus falls in love with a mortal. He rejects her, she is suffering from her love. Adonis is a freak. He falls in love with a cow. He tries to eat the animal. The cow is a murderer. A spring pheasant's eye.
A metadramatic mistake. A hypnoacoustic pressure ulcer.
Director: Nazanin Noori
Stage Designer: Ole Meergans
Costume Designer: Rahwa Oreyon
Video: Cemile Sahin
Music: Niklas Kraft, Etkin Cekin
With Caner Sunar, Edgar Eckert, Maria Ahmed, Thomas David Mairs.
https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/a-z/frei_boxen_2018_04_23/
Pictures by Ole Meergans.
VENUS AND ADONIS
06 / 2017
Production: Mother (Mutter) based on T. S. Eliot's 'The Hollow Men', Walt Whitman's 'Song Of Myself', Vladimir Mayakovsky's 'Tragedy' and Einar Schleef's 'Mothers', adapted by Nazanin Noori at Staatsschauspiel Hannover, Cumberlandsche Galerie (Montagsbar).
Nazanin Noori has edited different poetic pieces from the 20th century that merge into a growling chant of a son that lost his mother. Two actors and two singers tell the story of disappearance.
A live doom metal and drone radio play.
Director, Stage Designer: Nazanin Noori
Music: Daniel Nerlich
With Daniel Nerlich, Johanna Bantzer, Christoph Müller, Nazanin Noori.
01 / 2017
Production: THE COCKROACH THE STEELWORK (DER KAKERLAK DAS STAHLWERK) by Cemile Sahin at Staatsschauspiel Hannover, Cumberlandsche Galerie (Montagsbar).
THE COCKROACH is a dramatic mini-series by Cemile Sahin, telling the story of a reunion of a dead man with his mother. The Second part of the play that is called THE STEELWORK is a reminiscence of his time as a worker in a dialogue with the elderly.
Director, Costume Designer, Music: Nazanin Noori
Stage Designer: Ole Meergans
Video: Cemile Sahin
With Hagen Oechel and a choir.
10 / 2016
Production: The Industrial Society And Its Future (Die Industrielle Gesellschaft Und Ihre Zukunft) by Theodore Kaczynski, adapted by Nazanin Noori at Staatsschauspiel Hannover, Das große Anadigiding-Ende-Gelände.
The Industrial Society And Its Future is a manifesto that was written by a terrorist. In a radio play installation Nazanin Noori analyses Theodore Kaczynskis dialectic argumentation that is self-refuting in its fragility.
Director: Nazanin Noori
With Günther Harder, Joachim Müller, Nazanin Noori.
08 / 2016
Production: THE COCKROACH THE PEST THE GLARE (DER KAKERLAK DIE PEST DIE BLENDUNG) by Cemile Sahin at Staatsschauspiel Hannover, Cumberlandsche Galerie (Montagsbar).
THE COCKROACH is a dramatic mini-series by Cemile Sahin, telling the story of a reunion of a dead man with his mother. The First part of the play that is called THE PEST THE BLARE is the story of a dead man passing by his dead mother and brother that do not acknowledge each other.
Director, Costume Designer, Music: Nazanin Noori
Stage Designer: Cemile Sahin, Ole Meergans
With Laura Friedmann, Yves Dudziak, Niklas Binzberger, Katharina Zerr, Nazanin Noori.
Pictures by Ole Meergans and Cemile Sahin.
THE COCKROACH
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
11 / 2019
Assistant Director to Jürgen Kruse at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Production: Faith Love Hope (Glaube Liebe Hoffnung) by Ödön von Horváth
04 / 2019
Assistant Director to Tom Kühnel and Jürgen Kuttner at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Production: The Settled Woman (Die Umsiedlerin) by Heiner Müller
01 / 2019
Assistant Director to René Pollesch at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Production: Black Maria by René Pollesch
11 / 2018
Assistant Director to Armin Petras at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Production: The Silent Trabants (Die Stillen Trabanten) by Clemens Meyer
06 / 2018
Assistant Director to Sebastian Hartmann at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Production: In Tin Foil (In Stanniolpapier) by Björn Deigner, based on an idea by Anna Berndt
03 / 2018
Assistant Director to Tilmann Köhler at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Production: Medea. Voices (Medea. Stimmen) by Christa Wolf
01 / 2018
Assistant Director to Sebastian Hartmann at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Production: Ulysses by James Joyce
12 / 2017
Assistant Director to Jürgen Kruse at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Production: The Misunderstanding (Das Missverständnis) by Albert Camus
10 / 2017
Assistant Director to Rosa von Praunheim at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Production: Every Idiot Has A Grandmother, Apart From Me (Jeder Idiot Hat Eine Oma, nur ich nicht) by Rosa von Praunheim
09 / 2017
Assistant Director to Dušan David Pařízek at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Production: America (Amerika) based on the novel 'The Man Who Disappeared' by Franz Kafka
07 / 2017
Assistant Director to Lars Ole Walburg at Staatsschauspiel Hannover.
Production: Indien (India) by Josef Hader and Alfred Dorfer
04 / 2017
Assistant Director to Performing Group at Staatsschauspiel Hannover.
Production: Controlling Crowds based on 'Political Framing' by Elisabeth Wehling
02 / 2017
Assistant Director to Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson at Staatsschauspiel Hannover.
Production: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
11 / 2016
Assistant Director to Florian Fiedler at Staatsschauspiel Hannover.
Production: Heidi by Johanna Spyri
09 / 2016
Assistant Director to Clemens Sienknecht and Barbara Bürk at Staatsschauspiel Hannover.
Production: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
10 / 2015
Co-Assistant Director to Jürgen Kruse at Schauspiel Frankfurt.
Production: Leonce and Lena (Leonce und Lena) by Georg Büchner
02 / 2015
Co-Assistant Director to Jürgen Kruse at Schauspiel Frankfurt.
Production: Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Seid Nett Zu Mr. Sloane) by Georg Büchner
EDITOR
10 / 2019
Editor, 'TAXI', Korbinian Verlag
08 / 2018 - 08 / 2019
Content Director, Bedouin Records
10 / 2014 – 08 / 2016
Student Editor, Schirn Kunsthalle (Press Department)
02 / 2014 – 08 / 2014
Student Editor, Goethe University (Department for consulting and information services for interested applicants)
01 / 2013 – 01 / 2014
Student Editor, MM Brown Deutschland GmbH
10 / 2011 – 07 / 2012
Assistant Project Manager and Student Editor, zweipol GmbH