Arian Moayed is an Iranian-born award-winning actor and
the co-founder of Waterwell, a civic-minded and
socially conscious non-profit art and education
company.
With Waterwell, recent productions include The
Flores Exhibits, a series of videos in which artists,
lawyers, advocates, and immigrants read the sworn
testimonies of children held in detention facilities at
the U.S./Mexico border (flores
exhibits.org), The Courtroom: a re-enactment of one
woman’s deportation proceedings, named "Best
Theater of 2019" by The New York Times, and a
dual-language Hamlet (Arian played the title role).
Waterwell also created Fleet Week Follies, an
annual festival of music, food, and kid-friendly
activities, free to military service members and their families.
At the Waterwell Education Program, over 250 students per year receive world-class arts
training and education in advocacy at the Professional Performing Arts School, all free of
charge. He has been a faculty member for nearly 15 years, currently teaching the Artist as
Citizen and Senior Capstone classes.
As a writer/director, Arian has created the Emmy-nominated thriller, The Accidental Wolf,
produced by Topic, starring Tony-winners Kelli O’Hara, Laurie Metcalf, Sahr Nguajah, and
many more. Current writing projects include 28 Mordad (upcoming), a film version of The
Courtroom (Archer Gray/Topic) and a film adaptation of The Man in Red. He is currently
writing an autobiography about his family’s immigration story.
Notable acting credits: Broadway's The Humans (Drama Desk Award), Bengal Tiger at the
Baghdad Zoo (Tony nomination), Guards at the Taj (Obie Award), Emmy-winning Succession
(HBO), and an upcoming Shonda Rhimes’ series, Inventing Anna (Netflix).
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