My recent plays include The Life You Gave Me, developed by the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s Confluence Writers Project; Remains and Returns, a 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 Golden Thread Productions (San Francisco), The New Group (New York), Paines Plough (London), Playwrights Foundation (San Francisco), Queens Theatre (New York), and Silk Road Rising (Chicago), among others. A two-time finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, I’ve also been a finalist for Amphibian Stage’s SparkFest, Broad Horizons Theatre Company’s New Voices, New Plays, and Constellation Stage & Screen’s Woodward/Newman Award, and a semifinalist for Landing Theatre Company’s New American Voices Playwriting Festival and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. I live in St. Louis with my husband.

novidparsi@gmail.com


Recent Work


The Life You Gave Me
Confluence New Play Festival, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, staged reading

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

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Through the Elevated Line
• Silk Road Rising, production
• Jeff Awards, Best New Work nominee

“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

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Take This World
• The New Group, staged reading
• Bay Area Playwrights Festival, semifinalist
• O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, semifinalist

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Our Mother’s Meal
• Playwrights Foundation, staged reading
• Bay Area Playwrights Festival, finalist
• O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, semifinalist

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Those Ills We Have
• Golden Thread Productions, staged reading