Asha Kiani Artist

ASHA KIANI.

Asha Kiani is a producer, performer, theatre maker, storyteller, musician and teacher from Western Australia. She has been involved in story telling projects with The Centre for Stories, Perth Festival and, Saga Sisterhood- a transformative performance project for South Asian women. In January 2020, Asha was awarded for Best of (The Blue Room Theatre, 600 Seconds, Perth Fringe World Festival) for her debut piece, Drift. She is co-founder of the Second Generation Collective with local video artist Elham Eshraghian Haakansson, working with the local Iranian-Australian community to curate stories of displacement, migration, home and identity via multi modal art forms, Áváreh وارهٓا & Found at The Blue Room Theatre in January 2021. In March 2021, Elham & Asha led the collective in its first major 3-week exhibition at PS Space, Fremantle. The pair later took an iteration of this exhibition to Denmark Festival of Voice 2021. Currently, Asha works as a Teaching Artist for Barking Gecko Theatre Company, on the team at The Blue Room Theatre, and as a Primary School Teacher. She is also a member of Women of Music Production Perth (WOMPP) and is writing and producing her debut EP. Asha pursues the ‘untold stories’ around her and seeks to connect with audiences via authenticity, empathy, vulnerability, and humour.