Parsa Pirouzfar To Become Jean Valjean

Iran Theater-Parsa Pirouzfar plays   Jean Valjean in Les Misérables.

Parsa Pirouzfar-actor and stage director- who recently directed a summer day, accepted to play Jean Valjean in Hoosein Parsaei’s adaption of Les Misérables.

Parsa Pirouzfar is an Iranian actor and theater director. During 1984 to 1990 when he was at school he designed comic strips without publishing them. He graduated from high school in 1990 having studied the Maths and Physics major. He began his academic education in painting in 1991 at the University of Tehran's Faculty of Fine Arts; at the same time, he also started acting on stage, in different university plays.He worked as a voice over actor from 1993 to 1997.He made his film debut by playing a brief part in Dariush Mehrjui's Pari in 1994.In the same year, he took a course in Stanislavsky's acting method with Mahin Oskouie.I n 1995, he passed some acting courses at the Samandarian Institute of Dramatic Art.Parsa received his bachelor's degree in painting in 1997.He directed Yasmina Reza's play Art in 2001.

He gave acting lessons at Karnameh Institute of Culture and Art as well as in the extracurricular acting classes of Allameh Tabatabaie University in 2004 and 2005 and also at Hilaj Film School in 2007, 2010 and 2011.

Since graduation from high school, he has also been involved periodically in sculpture, graphic design and making teasers.

He directed David Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross in 2011.

Parsa is a founder member of Iranian Theatre Actors Association and also member of Khaneh Cinema (The Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds), Iranian Film Actors Association (I.F.A.A.), Iranian Theatre Actors Association and The Theatre Forum.

Hossein Parsaei already directed Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist at Vahdat Hall last year.

 

Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862. Les Misérables goes on stage from November in Tehran's New  Hall , the Royal Hall.