Habib Yazdi is an Iranian-American playwright and filmmaker. He produced and directed United States of Comedy, a five-part PBS series following emerging comedians around the country. 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 recipient of South Coast Repertory’s Elizabeth George Commission and 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.
Habib 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. He 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.
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