Deniz is a multidisciplinary artist (actor, director, playwright, shadow puppetry artist and animator) based in New York. Her works experiment with form and focus on memory, grief, immigration and the concept of home. Born and raised in Iran, Deniz has performed extensively in Tehran, Boston and New York . Some of her favorite credits include: Nazanin in Wish you were here (Gloucester stage), Babe in Friends & Lovers & Others (Next minute production at Tank NYC), Puccini’s SM woman in Puccini ( The West End Theatre), Marjan in English (Speakeasy Stage), The woman in Kiss (ArtsEmerson), Masha in The Three Sisters (Apollinaire). A playwriting lab resident at NYC’s New Perspective Theatre, a current university settlement artist in residence and former artist in residence at Center at West Park, Deniz has trained in master classes with prominent international artists including Peter Brook, Krymov, Paul Zaloom and Gardzienice Theatre Company of Poland. She is an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College and Queens Borough Community College of CUNY.

Deniz is one of the three recipients of 2024 Al-Bustan award for her solo performance “A Bach’eh who wanted to become Bach”. Awarded by UNIMA-USA for “excellence in writing for the art of puppetry” she has been the recipient of NYSCA award for her new project “Husks from Iran”, as well as the NYFA fund for her Oscar-qualified documentary animated web series, “Diasporan”, for which she is the writer, director, animator and singer and explores the daily struggles of immigrants. (www.denizkhateri.com)