This is me! My name is Farokh Soltani. I am a teacher, a writer, an editor, a sound designer, an academic research, and a semi-amateur chef. Yes, all those things!
I was born and raised in Iran, which I don’t really recommend. 4/10. On a good day (though the food and my family are great). So as soon as I could – which took a quarter of a century – I moved to the UK to study for an MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast media. And I did! I got a distinction too!
I quickly decided that I liked working on other people’s writing more than my own, and also that maybe writing tutors don’t necessarily have to be white. So I went into academia and script editing – yes, simultaneously. I started doing a PhD in radio drama, while teaching on the course I’d graduated from. In ten years, I managed to build up a weird combination career of doing sound design for audio drama, teaching writing and thinking, obsessing lot about mid-20th century philosophy, doing dramaturgy, script-editing for film, TV, and radio, running an experimental supper club, and doing some stand-up in my spare time. Oh, and I accidentally ended up on the TV show MasterChef TWICE, got to the semi-finals once (and crashed out in the first round the second time), and called myself a Porky Sisyphus in front of the whole nation.
You can learn a lot about me on this website. Would you like to talk to me/work with me/hire me/sell me two camels for the price of one? Get in touch!