Kayhan Irani is an Emmy-award winning writer, a performer, a cultural activist, and a Theater of the Oppressed trainer. She creates art to build community, spaces for healing, and to re-connect audiences into their desires to effect change. She has trained hundreds of groups in Theater of the Oppressed and participatory storytelling tools over the years, both nationally and overseas, in Afghanistan, India, and Iraq, and is a member of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) the oldest Theater of the Oppressed education and training group in the U.S.
