Ghazaleh Gol
- Director
- Actress
- Writer
Ghazaleh Gol is an award winning writer, director and actor.
She directed the first season of the dark comedy Miles from Nowhere (SKY TV) and was one of the writer/directors on the feature drama Kainga, the final installment in the trilogy by BSAG Productions for Radio NZ which premiered at MIFF where she was selected for the Accelerator Program. With over 70 episodes under her belt, Ghazaleh is also one of the directors of the medical drama Shortland Street, NZ's longest running medical drama television series.
Ghazaleh has written for television and is developing her own projects including the feature Goodbye Banu (with the NZFC and Miss Conception Films), a coming of age comedy which was shortlisted for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and in the top 10% of the Nicholl's.
Much of Ghazaleh's work centers on immigrant female characters, particularly from the MENA region with themes around identity and belonging - often through a comedic lens. She published her first book of essays The Girl from Revolution Road in 2020 with Allen&Unwin. She completed a PhD with creative practice in Media and Communication with a focus on Iranian diasporic cinema and has studied screenwriting at the University of Southern California, where she also worked for the Sundance Institute.
She directed the first season of the dark comedy Miles from Nowhere (SKY TV) and was one of the writer/directors on the feature drama Kainga, the final installment in the trilogy by BSAG Productions for Radio NZ which premiered at MIFF where she was selected for the Accelerator Program. With over 70 episodes under her belt, Ghazaleh is also one of the directors of the medical drama Shortland Street, NZ's longest running medical drama television series.
Ghazaleh has written for television and is developing her own projects including the feature Goodbye Banu (with the NZFC and Miss Conception Films), a coming of age comedy which was shortlisted for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and in the top 10% of the Nicholl's.
Much of Ghazaleh's work centers on immigrant female characters, particularly from the MENA region with themes around identity and belonging - often through a comedic lens. She published her first book of essays The Girl from Revolution Road in 2020 with Allen&Unwin. She completed a PhD with creative practice in Media and Communication with a focus on Iranian diasporic cinema and has studied screenwriting at the University of Southern California, where she also worked for the Sundance Institute.
