Nastaran Rabbani was born in 1985 in Iran / Tehran. She got a diploma in photography and camera and also worked in the costume design industry and hosted several exhibitions of her designs in Teheran. After moving to Berlin she collaborated in different theatre productions as a costume designer such as Modjgan Hashemian's dance pieces BODYTEXT / IN_VISIBLE, a co-production of Akademie der Künste and Maxim Gorki Theater.