Javaad Alipoor is a British-Iranian theatre-maker and writer from Bradford whose work explores the interactions between technology and society, inviting audiences to engage with the kinds of technologies which shape how knowledge is created, shared and contested.
Career
Alipoor studied Regeneration Project Management at University of Bradford and is a member of University Court there He has worked as a social worker and as resident associate director at Sheffield theatres and creative projects manager at Royal & Derngate theatre. His eponymous theatre company was established in 2017.
Alipoor has won two Scotsman Fringe First Awards (For 'Believers are But Brothers' 2017 and 'Rich Kids: A history of Shopping Malls in Tehran' 2019) and has been hosted at The Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festivals
Writing
'The Believers Are But Brothers' takes its title from a quote in the Qur’an and concerns online radicalisation and how young disaffected men access Islamic State propaganda sites and 4Chan
In 'Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran' Alipoor performs with Peyvand Sadeghian using YouTube and Instagram to tell stories of how Iran's young, wealthy elite live extravagant lifestyles on social media.
Alipoor's play 'Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World' (not to be confused with Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World') explores the story of Iranian singer Fereydoun Farrokhzad and together with Chris Thorpe, Me-Lee Hay and Raam Emami (King Raa)) comments on the way the internet shapes knowledge and research and how colonial structures are reproduced and perpetuated online, particularly in the multiple language versions of Wikipedia. Alipoor encourages his audience to browse Wikipedia and follow links down a wiki rabbit hole.
References
Living people
British writers
British-Iranian culture
People from Bradford
British dramatists and playwrights
Alumni of the University of Bradford
Year of birth missing (living people)