Bijan Mofid (Persian: بیژن مفید; May 31, 1935 – November 12, 1984)[1] was an influential Iranian playwright and stage director.

Bijan Mofid (playwright/director) was one of very few serious modern Iranian artists whose writing has reached beyond the intelligentsia to a broad general audience.

After teaching for several years at the University of Tehran, he founded a theater workshop, where many of Iran's finest actors received their training.

Bijan's work as playwright and director has had a continuous and controversial presence in Iranian theater, both on the popular stage and in experimental productions.

But his relationship with the Shah's regime consisted of a balancing act between continuous harassment from the secret police and the embarrassment of official recognition and reinterpretation of his work During and after the Iranian Revolution, political groups across the entire spectrum attempted to claim his work as representative of their ideals, but he remained independent and withdrew his plays from production when their integrity was threatened.