Born and raised in Tehran, Deniz Khateri is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist working in theater, experimental music-theater, contemporary opera, and animation. Her work explores memory, grief, immigration, and home. She is a PEN America Dream Out Loud selected playwright and La MaMa's Season 64 resident artist, with additional residencies at University Settlement, New Perspectives Theatre, and the Center at West Park. Deniz has performed extensively in Tehran and Boston, with off-off-Broadway acting credits in New York. She received the Al-Bustan Award for her solo show A Bach'eh who wanted to become Bach, the UNIMA-USA Nancy Staub Award for excellence in writing for puppetry, and grants from NYFA, NYSCA, and the Jim Henson Foundation. Her writing has been published in American Theatre magazine, Puppetry International, and by Brill. Her Oscar-qualified animated documentary series Diasporan explores immigrant life and has screened internationally. She holds an MA from Hunter College, where she teaches as an adjunct lecturer.