Habib Yazdi is an Iranian-American playwright and filmmaker whose work blends comedy, history, and cultural memory. He produced and directed the PBS series United States of Comedy and is a recipient of South Coast Repertory’s Elizabeth George Commission. His play AJAX, about the 1953 U.S. coup in Iran, was developed at The New Group and Bay Street Theater and premiered at Boise Contemporary Theater in spring 2026; it will receive a second production at Amphibian Stage this fall. He is a member of The Writers’ Room at Geffen Playhouse.
Habib’s films have screened internationally at festivals including St. Louis, Brisbane, Brooklyn, Vail, and Pan African, and at institutions including the Barbican Centre, the de Young Museum, and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. He has also collaborated with brands like Nike, Cartier, Converse, and Ford.
Habib earned his M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he received the Oliver Stone Screenwriting Award and the Goldberg Play Prize. He is an alum of the Sundance x ISF Building Bridges Fellowship, Warner Bros. Discovery Access Directors Program, Mentorship Matters Writing Lab, New York Stage and Film Workshop, and Gotham Week.
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