Ida Yazdi is an Iranian American filmmaker and former architect, raised between Isfahan, Iran and Birmingham, Alabama. She writes character-driven dramedies and dramas that explore identity, ambition, and family through morally
complex characters. She’s an alum of the NBC TV Writers Program, the STARZ Writers’ Intensive, and the Women in Film Writing Fellowship. Her work was also featured on the 2021–22 Muslim List created in partnership with the Black
List. She was a writer on the NBC series Extended Family and has also worked on City on Fire (Apple TV+) and Girls on the Bus (HBO Max).