Bobak Bakhtiari is an actor and co-founder of Fuel For Change. He also works in mental health part time at Bridges To Recovery in Santa Monica. In the past he was a drama teacher at Saint Mathews Episcopal Day School in addition to facilitating performance workshops at School Of The Arts in San Francisco.
Bakhtiari has a background in Religious Studies, Neuropsychology, and Performance Studies, with a BA from Bowdoin College, and training from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. In the distant past he worked as a Clinical Activity Director in a sub-acute Mental Health Rehabilitation setting, developing and facilitating drama therapy related and fitness programs, in addition to Anger Management, Nicotine Cessation, Dance groups, and Adventures In Tranformative Cacaphony (A.I.T.C).
He was appointed a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children in 2003 in Santa Cruz County.
Bakhtiari also happens to have past experience managing Shell Oil service stations. With Iranian parents, who doesn’t?
He was also a mailman in western Ireland for a period during the Bush Jr. Administration.
He can be seen in the docudrama “I ran Iran.” Expected release date: Spring 2012
WRITING
Working at a psychiatric facility allowed Bakhtiari to contribute articles to the mentalmansion blog.
For the “I Ran Iran” project, Bakhtiari contributes blog entries in a traveller’s-log format.
ABOUT
Bobak Bakhtiari is an actor and co-founder of Fuel For Change. He also works in mental health part time at Bridges To Recovery in Santa Monica. In the past he was a drama teacher at Saint Mathews Episcopal Day School in addition to facilitating performance workshops at School Of The Arts in San Francisco.
Bakhtiari has a background in Religious Studies, Neuropsychology, and Performance Studies, with a BA from Bowdoin College, and training from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. In the distant past he worked as a Clinical Activity Director in a sub-acute Mental Health Rehabilitation setting, developing and facilitating drama therapy related and fitness programs, in addition to Anger Management, Nicotine Cessation, Dance groups, and Adventures In Tranformative Cacaphony (A.I.T.C).
He was appointed a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children in 2003 in Santa Cruz County.
Bakhtiari also happens to have past experience managing Shell Oil service stations. With Iranian parents, who doesn’t?
He was also a mailman in western Ireland for a period during the Bush Jr. Administration.
He can be seen in the docudrama “I ran Iran.” Expected release date: Spring 2012
WRITING
Working at a psychiatric facility allowed Bakhtiari to contribute articles to the mentalmansion blog.