بهرام بیضایی کارگردان سینما و تئاتر و نمایش‌نامه نویس و فیلمنامه نویس و پژوهشگر ایرانی است که هم اکنون در ایالات متحده اقامت دارد و در دانشگاه استنفورد مشغول تدریس و تحقیق است.
سخنرانی پیش رو که با عنوان “آرش” و در دانشگاه استنفورد ایراد گردیده پیرامون آرش کمانگیر، یکی از اسطوره‌های کهن ایرانی است.
لازم به ذکر است در سال 1356 کتابی تحت عنوان “آرش” به نویسندگی بهرام بیضایی منتشر شده است.
Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran’s most acclaimed filmmakers, playwrights, and scholars of the history of Iranian theater, both secular and religious. He was a leader of the generation of filmmakers’ known as the Iranian New Wave, beginning in the late 1960s, and has since directed more than a dozen prize-winning films. He has also conducted pioneering research into the roots of ancient legends derived from Indo-Iranian mythology and known collectively as A Thousand and One Nights. He is that rare artist who is also an erudite critic and scholar of his myriad crafts. Beyzaie lives and works in Iran, but is spending time at Stanford as the Bita Daryabari Visiting Professor of Persian Studies.