This FORIEGNER hopes his genius performance gets him naturalized—or deported.

A dizzying solo that simultaneously explains—and refuses to explain—Sohrab Haghverdi's experience as an Iranian asylum seeker. A paradoxical, autobiographical, anti-identity, anti-comedy clown show inspired by Andy Kaufman’s hijinks and Sufi mystic Rumi's call to kill your self (بمیرید).

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“An inventive and often outrageous piece of clowning about art, immigration, and identity which makes the border tangible in maybe the most disgusting possible way. Unconventional. Undismissable. Unforgettable.” — Plays Unpleasant

FORIEGNER is co-created by Koan Brothers (Sohrab Haghverdi, Benjamin Rosenthal, Mason Rosenthal). Recipient of the Al-Bustan Award for SWANA Artists, support provided by Cannonball Festival, a peer-to-peer presenting hub in Philadelphia, PA and by The Ed Tyler Fringe Touring Fund.