Nasim Ahmadpour is a theatre director, dramatist and screenwriter. She holds an MA in dramatic literature from Azad Art University, Tehran. She co-founded the theatre group Don Quixote with Ali Asghar Dashti in 2003 and has written and/or directed eight plays for the group, which have been performed in countries including Switzerland and Germany. In 2018 she won the best playwright award at Tehran TIFF.

Nasim has co-written five short films and scripts for feature films with Shahram Mokri. Fish & Cat and Careless Crime were screened at the 2014 and 2020 Venice Film Festival. The screenplay for Careless Crime was nominated for an award at the Asia-Pacific film festival and won the Bisato d'Oro award for Best Original Screenplay at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. Invasion was screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018. Nasim Ahmadpour's latest screenplays are A Fleeting Encounter, which premiered at Luxembourg Film Festival, and Where is Ava?, directed by Romed Wyder and currently in pre-production.