Desiree Akhavan plays Shirin, a young and directionless Brooklynite who finds herself in a rut after experiencing a break up with her former lover Maxine (Rebecca Henderson). Shirin is a woman that ...

Desiree Akhavan is an incoming cast member on the new season of “Girls,” and if you check out her wistful, compact and drily amusing low-budget feature “Appropriate Behavior,” you’ll see why. (It ...

“We met nine years ago when we made this short film together that she wrote, [for which] I did a little bit of everything,” Frugiuele told me in a joint interview alongside Akhavan recently in a Los ...

Director, actor and writer Desiree Akhavan‘s first full-length feature “Appropriate Behavior” follows a young woman trying to navigate her way through a difficult break up while dealing with her ...

The delightful byproduct of living in a post-Girls pop-culture-verse is that even if you don’t care for Lena Dunham, or if you find her creative output too preciously self-effacing (or self-aware, or ...