Zohreh Shayesteh - Founder and Director
Zohreh Shayesteh was born and raised In Iran. She left Iran before the 1978 revolution and has been a permanent New York City resident since 1981.
She studied film production at New York University, and has worked as a T.V producer and director for various Local T.V stations in New York City. Prior to her latest film “Picking apples, drinking tea” She has written, directed and produced two short films “Requiem” and “ Agha Joon . Her documentary Film “Inside out “ was the official selection of 2006 Tribeca International Film Festival.
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Stephen McCarthy is a comedian and comic artist living in Brooklyn. He finds technology "vexing". However, if you wish to contact him about booking a comedy show at Zora Space, you may do so at stephen@zoraspace.com. You can also see his comics at www.horsesonstilts.tumblr.com.
Celeste Kaufman
Celeste Kaufman graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Writing and Publishing in May 2010 and is currently a freelance writer and publicist in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing has appeared in BUST Magazine and Time Out NY, as well as various websites. She has worked with a number of not-for-profit artistic organizations including teaching writing and arts classes at Rosie's Place Women's Shelter in Boston, and assisting the museum educator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY.
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Zohra Saed
Zohra Saed received her MFA at Brooklyn College. Her poetry and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals. Most recently in Gallerie International Journal: Afghanistan Ed. Bina Sarkar (India: 2009); The Crab Orchard Review (Summer/Fall 2009); and in Speaking for Herself: Asian Women’s Writings (Penguin India Books: 2009). She has performed as part of the cast of the legendary theater director Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements in 2000 and in 2007, where the ensemble caste performed at the first National Asian American Theater Festival. She is co-editor of the first Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press, forthcoming).
