With more than thirty years of experience in theater, Ali Asghar Dashti is one of the most active theater directors and educators in Iran. He is co-founder and director of the Don Quixote Theatre Group. During his career, Dashti has directed more than twenty-five productions both in Iran and internationally, earning significant recognition at various international festivals and arts forums. He has taught at Tehran University of Art and has been actively involved as a manager, consultant, and member of arts committees and festivals. His research and writing contributions cover numerous artistic disciplines, including theses, books and articles. Dashti is also an instructor and consultant in theater workshops and seminars, further solidifying his impact on the Iranian theater community. 

Nasim Ahmadpour is a theater director, playwright, and screenwriter who co-founded the Don Quixote Theatre Group in Tehran in 2003. Since then, she has written and/or directed eight plays for the group. In 2018, she won the Best Playwright award at TIFF Tehran. Ahmadpour has co-written scripts for five short films and feature films with director Shahram Mokri. Fish & Cat and Careless Crime were screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2014 and 2020, respectively, while Invasion was screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018. The screenplay for Careless Crime was nominated at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival and won the Bisato d’Oro for Best Original Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival in 2020. Her recent screenplays “ Black Rabbit, white Rabbit” and “Where is Ava?, , currently in pre-production. Her latest play, The Report on the Judgment Day, was performed in a private underground theater in Tehran, and was presented at the Performa Biennial in New York in 2023.