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Jalal Tehrani is an Iranian dramatist, theater director, critic, screenwriter, lighting and set designer. Some of his plays have been translated into other languages.

Beginning
Jalal Tehrani was born in Tehran on August 12, 1347. Before starting his artlife, he got a diploma in electronics and worked in the same field (design and production of electronic boards, electronic product design, and production and production line design).

Starting Art Life
He graduated in dramatic literature in Tehran university. His first play, the Boatman, appeared in Donyaye Tasvir magazine in 1998 and his career in theatre directing started in 2002 by staging one of his own plays, Nefertiti. In 2004, he premiered three of his own plays, the Tank, the Unicellulars, and ''Hey, Grown Man! Don’t cry,'' at City Theatre of Tehran and Molavi Theatre. Some play readings of his dramas have been performed in Iranian Artists Forum and City Theatre of Tehran. He also staged The Unicellulars at the Silk Road Festival in Mülheim, Germany, in 2003.

Away from the theater scene and research
Between 2006 and 2009, he turned to screenwriting and theatre studies, leading to several screenplays, including Mercy, which took part in Toronto Festival in 2008 with the direction of Madak Taebi, as well as the Shawl, It’s raining in the hell, the Finished Story, and the Trash Talk.

=== Establishment of MaktabeTehran and return to theater scene === In 2009, he established Maktab-e-Tehran Institute to promote his own educational cause in theatre, providing such necessary facilities as professional training, publishing, workshops, bookstore, and the like. Since its foundation, Maktab-e-Tehran has organized 11 festivals for its art students in such areas as playwriting, directing, and acting.

In 2011, Jalal Tehrani staged The Tank at Molavi Theatre for the second time and pursued a brilliant career by staging some of his own plays, including Listen to the sound of the Earth (2012) at Molavi Theatre, Cinderella (2013), Two Clown and a Half at City (2014), and a Season for Hunting Kites (2015) at the City Theatre of Tehran, as well as an adaptation of of Bergmann’s Autumn Sonata (2017) at Iranshahr Theatre. In an interesting experiment, with his art students as actors, he staged simultaneously two of his plays, Silver and Around the World in Eighty Days (2018) at Maktab-e-Tehran Theatre, without any press advertisement, the latter lasting around one year. His latest production was an adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ La Musica, which was staged at Maktab-e-Tehran Theatre in 2019, starring by current generation of his students. Since December 2021, he has put the Tank into rehearsal for the third time with art students of Maktab-e-Tehran.

Criticism and stage design
Between 1998 and 1999, during his education at Tehran University, he wrote theatre criticism about plays at stage, the first of which was about Akbar Radi’s Hamlet with Season Salad, appeared in Sahneh magazine. He has also produced set and lighting design for many plays, including Ali Abedi’s Gadfly and wedding in shadow, Hossein Mahkam’s Silence, Zahra Sabri’s Earth and wheel, Shahab Al-Din Hosseinpour’s the chieftain’s sorrowful widows, and Bahareh Rahnama’s the Other.

Shows

 * Nefertiti: performed in Fajr festival, Qashqaiy hall, 2001; public performance, Hall no.2, City Theater
 * Tank: public performance, Molavi hall, 2002
 * Single Cell: performed in Fajr festival, Molavi hall, 2002; public performance, Molavi hall, 2003; performed in Silk Road festival, Germany, 2003; Second performance in Fajr festival, Sanglaj hall, 2003
 * Hey Big Man, Don’t Cry: performed in Entezami hall, Iranian Artists Forum Complex, 2003; performed in Fajr festival, Molavi hall, 2003; public performance, the main hall of City Theater in 2004
 * Tank: public performance, Molavi hall, winter of 2012
 * Listen to the Sound of Earth: public performance, Molavi hall, fall of 2012
 * Cinderella: public performance, the main hall of City Theater, August and September of 2013
 * Two and a half Clowns: public performance, Nazerzade Kermani hall, Iranshahr complex, November and December of 2014
 * The Season for Kite-Hunting: public performance, the main hall of City Theater, June and July of 2015
 * Around the World in Eighty Days & Silver: public performance, Tehran School’s hall 2016- 2015
 * Autumn Sonata: public performance, Samandarian hall, Iranshahr complex, April of 2017
 * Two and a Half Clowns: public performance, the main hall of City Theater, November and December of 2017

Published Plays:

 * The Tank
 * Single Cells
 * On Mentoring the Youths
 * The Master’s Dignity
 * Dracula
 * Cinderella
 * Macbeth 2001
 * The Second Seal
 * Two and a Half Clowns
 * The Season for Kite- Hunting