Bijan Sheibani

Who is Bijan Sheibani?

Bijan Sheibani is a British-Iranian theatre director.

His production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size was greeted with universal acclaim and was variously described by UK critics as "psychologically subtle and emotionally powerful“, “faultless” and “outstanding”. His Olivier-award winning production of Gone Too Far returned to the Royal Court Theatre in 2008 and ATC co-produced the pan London tour to The Albany and the Hackney Empire.

In 2009 he directed Tarantula in Petrol Blue, a new opera, at Aldeburgh Music Festival. In the same year he directed two London-based productions: Rebecca Lenkiewicz's new version of Ghosts or Those Who Return, an ATC/Arcola Theatre co-production, which ran at the Arcola Theatre London from July 22 - August 22, and Our Class, a new play Tadeusz Slobodzianek, which premiered at the National Theatre in September.

Since then Sheibani has directed two more productions at the National: Greenland and Tirso de Molina's Damned by Despair in a new version by Frank McGuinness.