Azadeh Ganjeh is a performance artist, scholar, dramaturge, and activist, and a member of the Rebel-Ist-hah! collective. Born in Tehran-Iran, she holds a Master's in Theater Directing from Tehran Art University and a Doctorate in Philosophy-Theatre Studies from Bern University (2017).
Azadeh specializes in creating socially engaged and site-specific performances, participatory performances, performative interventions in urban public spaces, and community theater for social-political empowerment. Her research interests encompass Narratives and Politics of the stage, the performativity of public events, the Performative engagement of body and space, emancipation through performing arts, Aesthetics of performativity and politics of space, and activism in performance art.
After serving as a professor at Tehran University, she has lectured widely across Europe and, since April 2022, has been a researcher-lecturer at the University of Hildesheim. In October 2024, she became a Professor of Performance Art in Social Context at Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen, Ottersberg, combining artistic practice with critical research on performance and social change.