Biography

Zia Mojabi is an LA-based stage and screen writer. His writing career began at college in Cambridge, England, where he wrote and directed sketch comedies for the campus company. He also directed the alumni productions of a few British stage standards while at Birmingham University. After getting his degree, he moved to Spain, working at Madrid's prestigious Filmoteca Nacional while studying film theory, polishing his Spanish and co-writing with various Madrid writers. He later emigrated to Canada where he wrote and directed some experimental shorts and one teleplay for the Toronto-based CableNet which won him the CableNet award. He then moved to LA to fully focus on the business and pleasures of writing and directing for movies and television. In addition to his writing-directing career, Zia has also served as the senior vice president of Nielsen Entertainment, the premier motion picture research and marketing firm where he advised Sony, Paramount, Disney, Fox and Universal.
- IMDb mini biography by: A. Tripp