Iran’s Int’l University Theater Festival announces winners

The 23rd edition of the International University Theater Festival in Iran has been wrapped up by announcing the winners.

The winners received their awards during the closing ceremony of the festival held at the Samandarian Hall of the Iranshahr Theater Complex on Saturday evening.

‘Asphalt Workers’ directed by Amin Movahhedipour won the special jury award.

The award for best direction went to Hossein Hosseinian for his play ‘After Falling’ and the award for best playwright was presented to Ohadi-Haeri, Negin Firouzmanesh, Shideh Ghaffarian and Sina Sheibani for ‘Story of a Verb’.

Amir-Hossein Barimani received best actor award for his role in ‘Night of Doubt’ and Marjan Ettefaqian won best actress award for her role in ‘After Falling’.

The jury members Navid Mohammadzadeh and Hadi Hejazifar delivered short speeches before honoring the winners, admiring the physical organization of the festival and the good performances by the theater troupes.

Here are the other winners at the event:

Best set design: ‘Hamlet’ by Seyyed-Mehdi Mousavi

Best costume design: ‘Pope Zhito’ by Mohammad Mehri

Best stage lighting: ‘Karim’ by Mehran Karimi

Best music: ‘Construction’ by Mehdi Zamani

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