[2] Reza's father was a Russian-born[3][4][5] Persian Jew[6][7][8] engineer, businessman, and pianist and her mother was a Jewish Hungarian violinist from Budapest.

The North American production premiered in February 2013 at Players by the Sea in Jacksonville Beach Florida.

Screenwriting credits include See You Tomorrow, starring Jeanne Moreau and directed by Reza's then-partner Didier Martiny.

Her 2007 work L'Aube le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Evening or Night), written after a year of following the campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy, caused a sensation in France.

[11] It opened in London in March 2008, directed by Matthew Warchus in a translation by Christopher Hampton starring Ralph Fiennes, Tamsin Greig, Janet McTeer and Ken Stott.

[16] The play premiered on Broadway with an opening night cast of James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Harden, and Hope Davis.