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Reza Abdoh (رضا عبده) was born on 23 February, 1963 in Tehran, Iran, is an American dramatist. Discover Reza Abdoh's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 32 years old?

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Occupation theatre director and playwright
Age 32 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 23 February, 1963
Birthday 23 February
Birthplace Tehran, Iran
Date of death 11 May, 1995
Died Place New York City, US
Nationality American

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1963

Reza Abdoh (also Romanized as “Rezā Abdoh”, ) (February 23, 1963 – May 11, 1995) was an Iranian-born director and playwright known for large-scale, experimental theatrical productions, often staged in unusual spaces like warehouses and abandoned buildings.

Abdoh was born in Tehran in 1963, the first child of Ali Abdoh, a prominent athlete, businessman and founder of the Persepolis Football Club, and Homa Oboodi (née Mohajerin).

His paternal grandfather was Mohammad Abdoh Boroujerdi, a chief justice and expert in Islamic law in the Reza Shah era.

Abdoh had two brothers, Sardar "Sid" Abdoh and Salar Abdoh, and one sister, Negar.

He had one half-sister, Regina, from his father's previous marriage to an American woman.

On his father's side, he was first cousins once removed with Dara Khosrowshahi.

1977

In 1977 Reza was sent to England where he attended day school in London while living with his grandmother.

1978

In 1978, he was sent to Wellington, an exclusive boarding school in Somerset, England.

In the wake of the Iranian Revolution, Ali Abdoh traveled to California with his four children and settled in West Covina, California.

Reza's father, who had plans to open a hotel in Iran on the eve of the revolution, faced financial ruin.

In the Fall, Reza began classes at University of Southern California where he completed one semester.

1980

In January 1980, Ali Abdoh died of a heart attack on a squash court at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

It is said that he died not long after discovering that Reza was gay.

1983

In 1983 Abdoh began directing plays, often adapting classics like King Lear, King Oedipus, and Medea in Los Angeles theaters.

1986

Abdoh was known for his use of video in his sets, and he also created several videos between 1986 and 1991.

1990

In 1990, Abdoh directed Father Was a Peculiar Man, a multimedia performance produced by En Garde Arts featuring more than 50 performers that occurred across four blocks of New York City's Meatpacking District.

That year he also wrote and directed The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice, staged at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Abdoh called it a "gut reaction to systemic repression and erosion of freedom" in an interview with Thomas Leabhart published in Mime Journal.

His work often confronted such issues as race, class and, the AIDS crisis.

1991

Abdoh worked on several productions with the New York City and Los Angeles theater ensemble Dar a Luz, which he formed in 1991.

1992

Productions with the company included The Law of Remains (1992), Tight Right White (1993) and Quotations From a Ruined City (1994), co-written with his brother, Salar Abdoh.

His later work was called "nightmarish" and used multimedia elements with downtown theater conventions to "bombard" audiences.

New York Times critic Stephen Holden called Abdoh "a theatrical visionary" in his obituary.

In 1992 Abdoh wrote and directed the feature-length film The Blind Owl.

1995

Abdoh died due to causes related to AIDS on May 11, 1995.

He is the subject of the book Reza Abdoh, edited by Daniel Mufson; his papers and videotapes of some performances are kept at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

2016

Reza Abdoh: Theatre Visionary, a documentary film about Abdoh and his work, was completed by director Adam Soch in 2016.

2018

In 2018, MoMA PS1 hosted a retrospective exhibition titled Reza Abdoh curated by Negar Azimi, Tiffany Malakooti, and Babak Radboy of Bidoun with Klaus Biesenbach.

A chapter on Reza Abdoh, written by Joseph Cermatori, is included in 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre (2022).

Critic Jennifer Krasinski wrote in Artforum "It is not an overstatement to say that had Reza Abdoh lived even one more year, had he created even one more production, American theater would look very different now."