Javaad Alipoor (born September 1984) is a British-Iranian theatre-maker and writer from Bradford.

[2] Alipoor was born to an Iranian Shia Muslim father who fled the Shah regime and an English Catholic working class mother and grew up on a council estate in Bradford.

[7] Alipoor has won two Scotsman Fringe First Awards [8] (For 'Believers are But Brothers' 2017 and 'Rich Kids: A history of Shopping Malls in Tehran' 2019) and has been hosted at The Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festivals[9][10] 'The Believers Are But Brothers' takes its title from a quote in the Qur’an and concerns online radicalisation and how young disaffected men access Islamic State propaganda sites and 4Chan [6][11][12] In 'Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran' Alipoor performs with Peyvand Sadeghian[13][14] using YouTube and Instagram to tell stories of how Iran's young, wealthy elite live extravagant lifestyles on social media.

[15] Alipoor's play 'Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World' [16] (not to be confused with Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World') explores the story of Iranian singer Fereydoun Farrokhzad and together with Chris Thorpe, Me-Lee Hay and Raam Emami (King Raam)) comments on the way the internet shapes knowledge and research and how colonial structures are reproduced and perpetuated online, particularly in the multiple language versions of Wikipedia.

Alipoor encourages his audience to browse Wikipedia and follow links down a wiki rabbit hole.