Esmaeel Khalaj (born 1936, Persian: اسماعیل خلج) is an Iranian playwright and film and television writer, director and actor.

In his plays, he has a very naturalistic worldview and bitter language.

In fact, he is under the influence of European nineteenth-century realism and naturalism.

His characters are prostitutes, pimps, thieves and illiterate people.

[2] These characters use a simple and sometimes rude language, but at the same time they think about very difficult problems like death and life.