Fajr Theater Fest. announces nominees for FITF36 awards

TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) – The 36th Fajr International Theater Festival (FITF36) has announced the list of nominees in various national and international categories. The winners will be announced during the festival’s closing ceremony on Monday at 18:30 local time at Vahdat Hall, Tehran. The list of nominees in the international competition category is as follows: Best playwriting Award: Vahid Mohammadi and Sina Shafiee for ‘Seasickness’ – Iran, Karaj Mehdi Ziachamani for ‘The Omissions’ – Iran, Mashhad Best Directing Award: Christopher Rüping for ‘Hamlet’ – Germany Ashkan Khalilnejad for ‘The History Boys’ – Iran, Tehran Reza Servati for ‘The List of the Dead’ – Iran, Tehran Best Acting Award (male): Valentijn Dhaenens for ‘Big Mouth’ – Belgium Morteza Esmaeil-Kashi for ‘Mephisto’ – Iran, Tehran Houtan Shakiba for ‘Oliver Twist’ – Iran, Tehran Best Acting Award (female): Katja Bürkle for ‘Hamlet’ – Germany Elham Korda for ‘If You Die’ – Iran, Tehran Mahsa Ghafourian for ‘The Omissions’ – Iran, Mashhad Mehnaz Mirzaei for ‘Seasickness’ – Iran, Karaj Best Stage Design Award: Ashkan Khalilnejad for ‘Boys of History’ – Iran, Tehran Arash Dadgar and Reza Karamizadeh for ‘The Horse’ – Iran, Tehran Attila Pessyani and Amir Hassan Davani for ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ – Iran, Tehran Best Costume Design Award: Elham Shabani and Arash Dadgar for ‘The Horse’ – Iran, Tehran Neda Nasr for ‘The List of the Dead’ – Iran, Tehran Zirzamin Studio for ‘Mephisto’ – Iran, Tehran Best Music/ Sound Desgn Award: Valentijn Dhaenens for ‘Big Mouth’ – Belgium Arman Parsian and Mohammad Eslami for ‘Mephisto’ – Iran, Tehran Navid Gohari for ‘Or Prometheus’ – Iran, Tehran The 36th Fajr International Theater Festival ran from Jan. 18 – Jan. 28 in the Iranian capital, Tehran.