The Fear Never Leaves, You Just Keep Doing the Work: Arian Moayed

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

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🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

As a young child, Arian Moayed's family fled Iran, taking a years-long journey that split the family, and eventually landed them just outside Chicago, where they set about building a new life in a radically different world. Stumbling into a love of acting, Moayed began to pursue a passion for theater. He was met with a wall of no's. But, to him that just meant, make it happen on your own. And, so he did.

Moayed has since become a Tony-nominated actor, co-founder of theater/film production and arts education venture, Waterwell, (http://www.waterwell.org/) and an award-winning writer/director. He's worked alongside legends like Bill Murray, Alfonso Cuaron, Barry Levinson, Spike Lee and Jon Stewart. Arian's groundbreaking thriller TV series, The Accidental Wolf (http://theaccidentalwolf.com/), starring Kelli O’Hara, Laurie Metcalf, Denis O’Hare, and a cast of 36 Tony nominations, is taking the web by storm. And, his heart is most boldly on display in the arts education program he helped develop that offers 6-12th graders in New York City free theater training, and explores not just performance, but citizenship, service and what it means to be human. We all need more of that these days.

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0:00.0	We started realizing that theater's actual function is not to get us more jobs.
0:09.4	Theater's actual function is to leave a lasting mark on our society.
0:14.2	Like the Greeks did, like the Persians did, like Shakespeare did, that will tell us how
0:19.4	to live life better.
0:24.7	My guest today, R.M. Iad, is a Tony nominated actor, co-founder, producer of Waterwell, which
0:30.8	is an arts educator and award-winning writer, director for film.
0:37.2	When we turn the pages pretty far back, though, there's a pretty amazing and dramatic backstory
0:43.7	to his own life that informs his really beautiful and open lens on artistry, performance,
0:51.1	and the intersection between that and social justice and citizenship and bringing people
0:57.4	of disparate places together.
0:59.2	His family fled Iran shortly after the Iranian Revolution.
1:04.6	He was just a very small child, but he sort of made his way with part of his family.
1:10.0	Actually, his brother was left behind through Saudi Arabia for a number of years and eventually
1:14.2	ended up in Chicago of all places where the family had to completely relearn everything
1:19.9	about life and essentially start over.
1:22.6	He built a beautiful body of work and continues to do that, starring in major theatrical productions
1:29.2	on Broadway, in movies with people alongside people like Bill Murray, Spike Lee's productions,
1:36.4	John Stewart, Robin Williams.
1:40.5	One of the projects that he currently produces, the accidental wolf, which features a cast
1:45.4	with a combined 36 Tony nominations, including Kelly O'Hara, Laurie Metcalf, Dennis O'Hara,
1:51.6	Ben McKenzie.
1:53.0	The accidental wolf has a really cool new way of being able to view that.
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