My teaching method is centered on inclusive teaching and hands-on training.
• Provided creative, administrative, and logistical cohesion for the student
productions.
• Planned, scheduled, & budgeted the set constructions.
• Supervised all technical and design aspects of the productions.
• Managed the constructions, alterations and purchases necessary for all
productions.
• Collaborated with the scenic and prop designers to produce all necessary
technical drawings and models.
• Designed syllabi and executed numerous courses in theater, film, and liberal
arts.
• Educated more than 14000 graduate and undergraduate students and
mentored them in their projects since 2017.
• Cultivated excellent oral and written communication skills as demonstrated by
the superior student evaluations.
• Created events by collaborating such as “Inclusive Storytelling” at UW and
LGBTQIA’s Showcases at NYFA, which promoted equity, diversity, inclusion,
and anti-racism.
• Managed projects at the universities in all stages of film production.
Teaching at Center for Performing and Cinematic Arts
Fall 2024 Courses:
- Introduction to Theater Process
- World of the Play
- Race on the Stage
Supervising Dramaturgy Students
Taught:
- Global Theatre I (BFA & BA)
- Global Theatre II (BFA)
- Dramatic Structure: An Introduction to Dramaturgy (BFA)
- Elements of Design: Script Analysis (BFA)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2023-2024
Teaching Filmmaking at Yeshivat Noam School, (Pre-K-8th Grade), Paramus, NJ, 2022-2023
Taught at the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, New York City, NY, 2021-2022
- Production I
- Directing I
- Directing IV
- Intro. to Theater
New York Film Academy
Teaching Practical and Theoretical classes of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Acting for Film Courses (MFA and BFA Filmmaking and Acting), South Beach Campus, Miami Beach, 2018-2021
- Acting for Film IV (MFA)
- Cinema Studies (MFA)
- Critical Film Studies (BFA)
- Film Art (BFA)
- Dramatic Literature (BFA)
- Studies in Global Media (BFA)
- Topics in Film Studies (BFA)
- Art, Culture & Society (BFA)
- Topics in Literature II: Literary Genres (BFA)
Ringling College of Arts and Design
Teaching Storytelling (BFA Course), 2020-2021
Florida Atlantic University, The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication & Multimedia Studies
Teaching Scriptwriting (BFA) and
Video Production (BFA), 2020-2021
Barry University
College of Arts & Sciences
Teaching American Cinema (BA Course), 2021
University of Washington, The School of Drama, Teaching Assistant, (Two Sections), 3 Quarters, 2017-2018
Teaching graduate and undergraduate film and theater courses as an instructor from 2011 to 2017 in numerous universities and institutions in the Middle East. (Detailed employment history upon request.)
Yale University, New Haven, 2010-11
University of Tehran and Individual Tutorials, Tehran, 2004-07