I’m a playwright whose recent work includes The Life You Gave Me, winner of the Crossroads Project’s Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative; Remains and Returns, winner of the Ashland New Plays Festival; and Through the Elevated Line, Jeff Award nominee for best new work.
My scripts have been produced or developed by Boise Contemporary Theater, Golden Thread Productions, The New Group, Paines Plough, Playwrights Foundation, Queens Theatre, Silk Road Rising, and the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, among others. A two-time finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Woodward/Newman Award, I’ve also been a finalist for Amphibian Stage’s SparkFest and Broad Horizons’ New Voices and a semifinalist for the New American Voices Playwriting Festival and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
A son of Iranian immigrants, I was born in New York and raised in Texas. I earned degrees in literature from Swarthmore College and Duke University, then lived in England and Chicago. I currently live in St. Louis with my husband.
novidparsi@gmail.com
Recent Work
The Life You Gave Me
• Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative, Crossroads Project, Illinois State University, winner
• BIPOC Playwrights Festival, Boise Contemporary Theater, selected
• Confluence New Play Festival, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, selected
• Woodward/Newman Award, finalist
Remains and Returns
• Ashland New Plays Festival, winner
• Bay Area Playwrights Festival, finalist
• O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, semifinalist
The Innkeepers
• Woodward/Newman Award, finalist
• Amphibian Stage, SparkFest, finalist
• Broad Horizons Theatre Company, New Plays Festival, finalist
• Queens Theatre, virtual staged reading
• Bay Area Playwrights Festival, semifinalist
• O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, semifinalist
• Landing Theatre Company, New American Voices Playwriting Festival, semifinalist
Through the Elevated Line
• Silk Road Rising, production
• Jeff Awards, Best New Work nominee
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, staged reading
“Parsi is a wonderful writer.”—Time Out
“Beautifully crafted … layered, nuanced writing.”—Windy City Times
“A revelation.”—Nan Barnett, executive director, National New Play Network, New Play Exchange recommendation
Take This World
• The New Group, staged reading
• Bay Area Playwrights Festival, semifinalist
• O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, semifinalist
Our Mother’s Meal
• Playwrights Foundation, staged reading
• Bay Area Playwrights Festival, finalist
• O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, semifinalist
Those Ills We Have
• Golden Thread Productions, staged reading
Novid Parsi 