Career
Alizad is a lecturer at the Cinema & Theater College, University of Art since 2004, teaching drama analysis, playwriting, and dramatic principles. He was also a member of the Aeein Theater Group from 1991 to 2004 and a member of the Leev Theater Group from 2004. In 2009, he met Noel Greig in Tehran to hold a workshop where Alizad translated his book; ''Playwriting: A Practical Guide'', into Persian.Performances 2005–2009
*''Waiting for Godot'' by Samuel Beckett, Tehran, Molavi Hall (2005) *''Two Latin American plays'', Tehran, Department of Cinema & Theater (2006) *'' Oleanna'' by David Mamet, Tehran, City Theater (2006) *''Anniversary Celebratory and Swan Song'' by Chekhov, Tehran, Department of Cinema & Theater (2007) *''Ohio Impromptu, Footfalls, Come and Go, Catastrophe, and Rough for Theater 1'' by Samuel Beckett (Tehran, Molavi Hall, June 2008) *'' All That Falls'' by Samuel Beckett, Artist home, Tehran, September 2008 *''Police'' by Slawomir Merozek, first premier: May 2009 *''Catastrophe & Come and Go'' by Samuel Beckett, Romania, 2009 *''What Where / Mountain Language Beckett/Pinter, (2010) *''Magic Mountain'', written and devised by Ali Akbar Alizad (2010), a collaboration between 84theater and 20 Stories High from Liverpool, performed in Manchester, UK, as a part of Contacting the World Festival *''Catastrophe and Come and Go'' by Samuel Beckett, UK, Manchester, 2010 *''Endless Monologue'', a documentary performance based on the verbatim technique. July 2011, East Gallery, Tehran *''Play'' by Samuel Beckett, Arasbaran Art Center, Tehran, November and September 2011. *''Krapp's Last Tape'', by Samuel Beckett, Molavi Hall, 2012 *''Tango'', by Slawomir Merozek, (banned by Iranian Art censorship) *''The House of Bernarda Alba'' by Lorca, Tehran, 2014 *''Act Without Words I & II'' by Samuel Beckett, Tehran, Moje No hall, 2014 *''Oleanna'' by David Mamet, Tehran, Samandarian hall, 2015 *Mountain Language/Faith in Ourselves by Harold Pinter/Martin Crimp, Tehran, Molavi Hall, 2016 *Fragments by Samuel Beckett, Tehran, City Theater (2016) *The Maids by Jean Genet, Tehran, Molavi Hall, (2018) *Alice in Tehran, written and directed by Ali Akbar Alizad (in rehearsal)References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alizad, Akbar Iranian male stage actors Iranian theatre directors Living people 1973 births