Rabeah Ghaffari was born in Iran in 1971. She moved to America in 1978 and has been living in New York City since 1981. She is a filmmaker, writer, film editor and actress. As an actress, she has performed at many New York theaters including La MaMa, ETC, Theatre 22, The Judith Anderson and The Kitchen. Most recently she has played a lead role in Windows, a film by Shoja Azari (Official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival 2006). As a filmmaker she has made a feature length documentary, The Troupe, about a Ta'ziyeh troupe's journey from Iran to NYC to perform at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival which featured Tony Kushner and was executive produced by Shirin Neshat and funded by the Ford Foundation and Lincoln Center. She has also made a short film called Ritual which is currently in post-production. As a film editor she has edited a feature length documentary by filmmaker, Zohreh Shayesteh, called Inside Out, a film about transsexuals in Iran (Competition selection of the Tribeca Film Festival 2006) and is currently editing Ms. Shayesteh's narrative feature film. She is also editing a feature documentary on Iranian youth culture called Nobody's Enemy directed by Neda Sarmast. As a writer, Miss Ghaffari has written a screenplay, Neyshapoor, which was an official selection of the IFP/Emerging Narrative 2005. She was also a participant of the Berlin Film Festival's Talent Campus 2005. She is currently finishing her first novel, Caspian's Sea.
