Arian Moayed
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Arian Moayed (born April 15, 1980) is an Iranian-born American actor, co-founder of Waterwell, art instructor, and an Emmy nominated writer/director.
For his role in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and later in the Tony Award-winning Play For Humans, Moayed was nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He has received numerous awards, including the Obies, Theater World Award, Drama Desk Award, and The Outstanding Alumni of the Year at Indiana University.
Early life
Moayed was born in Tehran, Iran. His father is a banker by trade. In 1986, his parents immigrated from Iran. When Moayed was five years old, the family settled in Glenview, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. He speaks Farsi.
In 1998, Moayed graduated from Glenbrook South High School. In 2002, he earned his bachelor's degree from Indiana University. He appeared in Samuel Beckett, Carlo Goldoni, and William Shakespeare's plays during college.
Personal life
Krissy Shields and two children live in New York City.
Career
After college, Moayed migrated to Manhattan. Moayed and director Tom Ridgely, Moayed's roommate at Indiana University, co-founded the Waterwell, a theatre, education, and film company headquartered in New York in 2002. Since the theater has existed, Waterwell has produced more than a dozen stage plays and shows.
At the Baghdad Zoo, where Moayed appeared opposite Robin Williams, he portrayed Musa in Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger. In 2011, Moayed received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Musa at the 60th Tony Awards. In addition, he was given a Drama League Award nomination and a Theatre World Award.
Moayed wrote and directed his first short film Overdue, which premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival and was published on the Business of Being Born website. Omar Metwally appears in his second film, Day Ten, which takes place the days after September 11, 2001, which was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
He appeared in Babur, one of two characters in Guards at the Taj, written by Rajiv Joseph, as well as Omar Metwally as Humayun. The American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice awarded him a 2016 Obie Award for his work.
Richard Saad appeared in Stephen Karam's The Humans, which appeared at the Roundabout Theater off-Broadway, Helen Hayes Theater, and Gerald Schoenfeld Theater in London, United Kingdom. Joe Mantello and produced by Scott Rudin, and the production received a Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award, and a Tony Award for Best Play.
In HBO's Succession, Moayed has appeared as Stewy Hosseini since 2018.
Waterwell's work focuses on a socially aware and civic-minded approach to theater, education, and film. "Empower its people to change their lives and the world in which they live," Waterwell's mission states.
Moayed, the co-founder of Waterwell, has been instrumental in over a dozen original productions, the most notable being a dual-language Hamlet (played the title role) receiving critical acclaim. Together with Waterwell, Moay developed the forgotten war musical called Blueprint Specials, which was produced on board of the Intrepid with a cast of veterans.
With Waterwell Films, he has written and directed The Accidental Wolf, a premium short form film starring Kelli O'Hara, Laurie Metcalf, Denis O'Hare, Ben McKenzie, Marsha Ramsey, Marsha Birney, and a cast of over 70 Tony nominations on its own website, theAccidentalwolf.com.