Seemia Theatre are an award-winning international ensemble of artists from Argentina, Iran and the UK, led by Director Sara Amini.
Seemia’s devising style fuses Polish laboratory theatre practices, traditional British script-writing and Persian storytelling. We believe in theatre as a tool to break barriers
and through socially-engaged devised performances we endeavour to bring communities together.
Seemia's productions have been performed across the UK and Internationally with highlights such as Arcola Theatre, Kampala International Theatre Festival, and Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Our plays have been featured on BBC World Service and won Summerhall’s LUSTRUM Award.
Seemia were a Barbican OpenLab 2022 company and an Oxford Playhouse EVOLVE 2024 Associate Artists. This summer Seemia will present their new co-created production, ‘Let’s Love’, commissioned by ARC Stockton.
About Sara Amini:
Sara is from Iran where she studied BA Theatre Directing at Tehran University, before moving to the UK to study MA Performance Making at Goldsmiths, UoL. She is currently recording her new LP.
Performance Credits:
EFG London Jazz Festival for Vaak Events, ‘Women/Life/Freedom’ at Bristol Old Vic, ‘Yusuf's’ by Sinai Orchestra Ensemble, ‘The Passage’ at Brighton Fringe Festival, ‘Hotel Medea’ by ZU-UK.
Directing & Assistant Directing:
Assistant Director for Pulitzer Prize Winner ‘ENGLISH’ at Royal Shakespeare Company, ’Threads of Resilience’ with International Theaterinstitut Germany, ‘Crap at Animals’ by Mechanimal, ‘5 Shades of Black’ at Pleasance, Mike Bartlett's ‘Not Talking’ at Arcola, ‘The House of Bernada Alba’ at the Iranian International Theatre Festival and Mohammad Rahmanian's 'Horses'.
