Shadi Ghaheri is an award-winning theater, opera, and film director and choreographer from Tehran, now based in New York City. Her recent Tosca with Heartbeat Opera was praised by The New York Times as “ambitious, agile, and daring.” A graduate of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale (MFA in Directing), she has directed and choreographed for Signature Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Alliance Theatre, Bard Music Festival, Beth Morrison Projects, Heartbeat Opera, The Tank, Emruz Festival, The Brick, and NYU Tisch, where she now teaches directing.