Ali Nasr (1891–1961) was an Iranian dramatist and playwright and one of the founders of theatre in Iran.
When he was a young man, he went to Tehran and started to study the French language and literature.
Nasr wrote many plays, and also founded an acting school in Tehran in 1939, where many important dramatists and actors studied.
[5] Nasr became a prominent playwright during the reformist reign of Rezā Shāh.
His plays expressed didactic, moralistic themes[6] promoting modernization, including literacy, the emancipation of women and opposition to social backwardness.