{"id":1586,"date":"2025-06-23T12:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1586"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:27:36","slug":"isabelle-fereshteh-sanatdar-stevens","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/profile\/isabelle-fereshteh-sanatdar-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"preFade fadeIn\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1750694392508_453\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isabellefereshteh.com\/\">ISABELLE FERESHTEH SANATDAR STEVENS <\/a>is an Iranian AND Irish-American writer, performer, and artist whose work tends to center love and loss, making new worlds and realities, and bearing witness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"preFade fadeIn\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1750694392508_462\">She and her work have been supported by Smith College, Horizon Theatre Company, Boston University, Boston Playwrights&#8217; Theatre, Fresh Ink Theatre Company, New Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center (KCACTF), and New York Stage and Film. Isabelle was NewRep Theatre&#8217;s 2023 Pipeline Artist-in-Residence, is currently Boston University&#8217;s 2024-25 Whitney Young, Jr. Fellow for Social Justice, and was the 2024 First Place National Award Winner of the Kennedy Center&#8217;s American College Theater Festival&#8217;s John Cauble Outstanding Short Play Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"preFade fadeIn\">They are a graduate of BU&#8217;s Playwriting MFA (studying under Nathan Alan Davis, Hansol Jung, Melinda Lopez, and Ron\u00e1n Noone) and are the Associate Artistic Director of New York Stage and Film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7308,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1586\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}