Arash Abbasi (Persian: آرش عباسی, born in 1978 in Malayer) is an Iranian screenwriter, director and actor.

His work Named Nevisandeh Mordeh Ast (The Writer Is Dead) has been translated to German and Italian and has been performed in different cities of Italy.

[11] Earlier in 2016, Abbasi was invited to the Italian city of Bologna to stage his play "The Lady” during an Iranian Cultural Festival Titled “Heart of Persia”.

[12] Teatri di Vita, an international center for theater and contemporary arts in Bologna, was the main organizer of the festival.

[14] In autumn 2017, Abbasi's Groupe Moj collaborated with Italian theater expert and choreographer Claudia Castellucci in a joint performance.