Meet Arian Moayed

Arian Moayed is an American actor, writer, and director of Iranian descent. For his role in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Moayed was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and he also starred in the Tony Award-winning The Humans. He was born on April 15, 1980, in Iran.

Moayed was born in the Islamic Republic of Iran. His father works in the banking industry. Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, his parents left the country. When Moayed was five years old, his family moved to Glenview, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.

He is fluent in Farsi. Moayed received his high school diploma from Glenbrook South in 1998. In 2002, he graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. He performed in Samuel Beckett, Carlos Goldoni, and William Shakespeare’s plays throughout his college years.

After graduating, Moayed relocated to Manhattan. Moayed co-founded the Waterwell, a theater, education, and film organization based in New York, with director Tom Ridgely, who was Moayed’s roommate at Indiana University.

Since the theater’s inception, Waterwell has produced over a dozen stage performances and shows.

Moayed And Waterwell

Waterwell’s approach to theater, education, and film are socially conscious and civically concerned. “Empower its audience to transform their lives and the world in which they live,” the Waterwell mission statement declares.

As a co-founder of Waterwell, Moayed has contributed to the creation of more than a dozen original plays, the most recent of which was a critically acclaimed dual-language Hamlet (in which he performed the title role).

Moayed also collaborated with Waterwell on the forgotten war musical Blueprint Specials, which was staged on the Intrepid with a veteran cast.

Marian Moayed Movies

Some of the movies Moayed starred in are: Succession (2018), The Accidental (2017), Spider-Man No Way Home(2021), Love Life(2020), and so on.