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Amin Azimi

Ph.D. in Drama,Theatre & Performance Studies (in progress)

Academic Profile

Amin Azimi is a PhD candidate in Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. His dissertation, Dissensus Dramaturgy: Rethinking the Politics of Dramaturgy in Contemporary Iranian Theatre, explores contemporary Iranian and diasporic theatre through the lenses of dramaturgy, post-dramatic aesthetics, and the politics of performance. Over the past decade, he has worked as a theatre director, lecturer, and film and theatre researcher, with publications in Asian Theatre Journal, Alternatives Théâtrales, Theater der Zeit, Cinema & Literature, Simia, and other journals.

Sample Publications

 

  • Azimi, Amin. “Earworm: Entangled in the Political Landscape.” The Theatre Times, 15 May 2024.

  • Azimi, Amin & M. Moosavi. “Mystic Lear and Playful Hamlet: The Critical Cultural Dramaturgy in the Iranian Appropriations of Shakespearean Tragedies.” Asian Theatre Journal 36, no. 1 (2019): 144–164.

  • Azimi, Amin. “éclosion des théâtres privés à Téhéran aujourd'hui.” Alternatives Théâtrales 132, no. 1 (2017): 68–72.

  • Azimi, Amin. “Movement in the Realm of Absence: Amir Reza Koohestani against Established Aesthetics.” Theater der Zeit 9, no. 1 (2011): 40–44.

  • Azimi, Amin. “Writerly Cinema: Anti-plot as a Representation of a Deconstructed Subject.” Cinema and Literature Journal 40, no. 1 (2014): 89–93.

Scholarly Interests

Contemporary Iranian Theatre & Cinema; Dramaturgy; Dissensus and the Politics of Aesthetics; Post-dramatic Theatre; Transnational and Diasporic Performance; Essay Film; Digital Storytelling

CV

AMIN_AZIMI_cv_July_2025_a12fe72c437e8cbc5710ad1de9e99cf0.pdf

Current Position

Ph.D. Candidate & Researcher in Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Toronto, Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies