Learn Persian with Chai in Conversation, Growing Up Iduni interview with Ariyan Mo Ayyed. Salon, Behammii.

My name is Leila Shams.

I'm host and creator of Learn Persian with Chaiyan Conversation.

I'm so excited to share with you all my conversation with Emmy Award nominated actor,

Ariane Maid. He really needs no introduction, but you've probably seen him as Stewie on

Succession, Kian on Love Life, Lawyer Todd on Inventing Anna, or in the new Miss Marvel series.

Really, he's been everywhere, it seems, the past couple of years.

But as you'll hear in the interview, his current success is the result of a couple

decades of passionate work.

I came away from this conversation with an incredible amount of inspiration and excitement

for the future, both for the future of theater as a force for

positive change and for the future of the Iranian diaspora in general. Also, I learned that

Arienne and I share the same mantra as the basis for our work. He for his project, Waterwell

Theater, and me for Chey and conversation. We get into that in detail in the conversation.

Super excited for you all to hear this episode.

Enjoy.

Very cool.

But I feel like you've been a fixture in our house for the past many months.

I'm sure you hear that all the time.

Funny but true, yeah.

It's good to finally talk to you.

And I've been having a succession withdrawal.

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