Banafsheh Hassani بنفشه حسنی (any/all pronouns) is an Iranian Montreal-based feminist theatre creator and practitioner. They have a BFA in Performance Creation from Concordia University with distinction. Banafsheh is preoccupied with home, memory, dreams, identity, un/changing and relations (blood and otherwise), and all that would happen if only “home [was not] the mouth of a shark” (home, Warsan Shire). They are currently nurturing their growing creative concern and longtime inquietude for diasporic and immigrant lives and experiences. His plays have had readings through Teesri Duniya Theatre’s Fireworks playwriting program and Playwright Workshop Montreal’s Young Creators Unit. As an actor, she most recently appeared in Wine&Halva by award-winning playwright Deniz Başar. As a teacher, they are also working at Geordie Theatre School.