The Traditional and Ritual Theater Festival crowns the best playwright

The closing ceremony of academic seminar and playwriting section was held in Tabriz with the presence of Kazem Nazari (General Director of Dramatic Arts), Ahmad Joulaie, (artistic director  of festival), Narges Yazdi (academic manager of seminar department) ), Esrafil Farajollahi ( CEO of Dramatic Arts Association of the country) and Mohammad Hossein Balaghi (Director General of Culture and Islamic Guidance of East Azerbaijan).

All speakers and presenters of articles in the seminar and some veteran stage artists were present at the closing ceremony.

The jury of playwriting section which is called General Culture  consists of Ali Aghababa, Saber Akbari and Alireza Khani .

All the eight researchers who presented articles and some veteran artists were honored by the General Director of Dramatic Arts, the CEO of the Dramatic Arts Association of Iran, the artistic director of festival and the General Director of Culture and Guidance of East Azerbaijan . They got certificate for publishing scientific articles.

Narges Yazdi  was  academic manager of the 9th research seminar of the 21st Traditional and Ritual Theater Festival. This program was held in Tabriz under the auspices of the Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance of East Azarbaijan province.

The winners of the playwriting section are:

First prize: Davood Moeinikia; The play "Reporter" from Tehran

Second prize: Alireza Davari; The play "Shomran" from Hormozgan

Third prize (joint): Mahyar Hezarjareebi; the play "Snow Pit" from Mazandaran and Davood Ebrahimi; "Eight Khan" from Alborz