Vahid Evazzadeh is an Iranian-Danish award-winning filmmaker, theatre director, entrepreneur and culinary explorer. He is the director of the international artistic group Counter Institute. Vahid was born in Iran and lived there until the year 2001 when he went to Denmark to study with Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret. Vahid directs and produces artistic, cultural and socially relevant international projects that challenge the status quo both artistically and productionally. He specialises in training performers (actors and dancers) with the method of Formative Theater he has developed since 2006. He has studied political science and economics at CBS and Multimedia Design at CPH Technical School. Vahid is also an expert at Roberto Cimetta Fund (formerly a board member) and the manager of Artisan Food Experiment.