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Recent highlights:

AJAX @ Boise Contemporary Theater (2026)

I played Kambiz (which is my dad's name!) in the world premiere of this incredible play by Habib Yazdi. AJAX tells the story of the CIA-backed coup in Iran in 1953

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me as Kambiz the poolboy, on the precipice of glory... and democracy

The Thousand and One Nights @ La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (2026) and Columbia Lenfest Center (2025)

I played a hakawati, or storyteller, in this forceful anti-colonial adaptation

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me as a the first sheikh, a strange old man whose wife is a deer

Windows, Indie film by Andres Degas (upcoming, 2026)

I played Zeezo, a teen in new jersey who communicates only through mime. he is illicitly raising money for him and his mom's asylum application

i wasn't kidding about the mime...

Henry V @ Smith Street Stage (2025)

I played Bardolph in Carroll Park in Brooklyn!