She’s overeducated, underemployed, badly sexed — you might think you’ve heard 20-something Shirin’s story before, but you haven’t. Written and directed by and starring newcomer Desiree Akhavan, ...

In addition to examining the actions parents take to monitor their teen’s internet and cellphone use, Pew Research Center also asked parents how often they talk with their teen about appropriate and ...

Desiree Akhavan plays Shirin, a young and directionless Brooklynite who finds herself in a rut after experiencing a break up with her former lover Maxine (Rebecca Henderson). Shirin is a woman that ...

Desiree Akhavan is an incoming cast member on the new season of “Girls,” and if you check out her wistful, compact and drily amusing low-budget feature “Appropriate Behavior,” you’ll see why. (It ...

Akhavan wrote this specific role for herself, after co-starring and co-directing in a web series, and that for this project, “it felt like the right time and the right story. I always knew I wanted to ...

The delightful byproduct of living in a post-Girls pop-culture-verse is that even if you don’t care for Lena Dunham, or if you find her creative output too preciously self-effacing (or self-aware, or ...

“Appropriate Behavior” is a brand new play debuting on Off Broadway April 8th – 13th, 2025 performing Tuesday – Saturday at 7pm and Sat & Sun at 3pm at the American Theater of Actors (4th Floor ...

"I hardly ever see people on the street who look like me, let alone the screen," says Desiree Akhavan, the writer, director and star of "Appropriate Behavior." So, naturally, what initially propelled ...

Student Conduct & Care receives reports or formal complaints of alleged violations of the Code of Conduct (the Code). Most often, reports come from professional staff members, such as Resident ...

In her debut feature, premiering in Sundance's Next section, Desiree Akhavan plays an Iranian-American woman attempting to bounce back from a failed gay relationship. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic ...

“Appropriate Behavior” is a kind of Iranian American-bisexual “Annie Hall” crossed with an episode or two of HBO’s “Girls.” And, as the feature writing-directing-acting debut of the delightfully ...