Ali Rafie
علی رفیعی
Rafie in 2013
Born	(1938-01-11) January 11, 1938 (age 86) Isfahan, Iran
Occupation(s)	Director, Playwright, Stage designer
Years active	1958–present

Ali Rafie (Persian: علی رفیعی; born January 11, 1938) is an Iranian theatre and cinema director and stage designer.

Education

He received a B.S and master's in sociology (1964–1968), as well as a B.S., master's, and Ph.D. in theater (1967–1974), from the Sorbonne in Paris.

Plays (as a writer, director and stage designer)

• Antigone by Sophocles, Molavi theatre, 1974
• Shivan va Esteghase Paye Divare Boland Shahr by Tankred Dorst, Shahr Theatre, 1976
• Khaterat va Kabous haye Yek Jamedan az Ghatle Amir Kabir by Ali Rafie, Shahr Theatre, 1976
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Shahr Theatre, 1976
• Memory Of Sand Years (Yadegare Salhaye Shen) by Ali Rafie, Vahdat Hall, 1992
• Yek Rooze Khatere Angiz baraye Daneshmand Voo by a Chinese writer, Vahdat Hall, 1997
• Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca, Vahdat Hall, 1998
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Vahdat Hall, 2000
• Shazde Ehtejab by Hooshang Golshiri, Vahdat Hall, 2001
• The Maids by Jean Genet, Shahr Theatre, 2002
• Never snows in Egypt by Mohamad Charmshir, Shahr Theatre, 2003
• Fox Hunting (شکار روباه) by Ali Rafie, Vahdat Hall, 2009
• Kitchen, (preparing), 2012

Stage Designing

• The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht directed by Hamid samandariyan, 1998
• Dokhtare Gol foroush directed by Parvane Mojde, 1999
• The Postman (Pablo Neroda) by Antonio Skarmeta directed by Alireza Kooshk Jalali, 1999

Tele Theater (as a director)

• L'Avare ou l'École du mensonge by Molière, channel2 IRIB, 1993

Filmography

• Agha Yousef (writer and director), 2011
• The Fish Fall in Love (writer and director), 2005
• Plaisir d'amour en Iran directed by Agnès Varda (actor), 1976
• One Sings, the Other Doesn't directed by Agnès Varda (actor), 1977