Drama Therapy Collection

Kamran Afary is an Assistant Professor of Intersectional Identities and Relationships and a recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Lecturer Award at Cal State Los Angeles. Afary has incorporated Narradrama approaches in teaching courses in Communication studies; including: Interpersonal Communication and Health Communication at Lancaster Men’s Prison. He received his Registered Drama Therapy (RDT) certification in 2018 and teaches a training workshop for mental health professionals on Intersectionality at the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles.  He is also an active member of the North American Drama Therapy Association. Afary is co-author of Iranian Diaspora Identities: Stories and Monologues (forthcoming 2020). He received his PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University in 2007. He is the author of Performance and Activism: Grassroots Discourse after the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992.