Bio

Arian Moayed is the Co-founder & Board Chair of Waterwell, a civic-minded and socially-conscious theater and education company, as well as a partner at the for-profit Waterwell Films. Most recently with Waterwell, Moayed arranged the transcripts of a deportation proceeding called The Courtroom, now published by Dramatists Play Service and a feature film in pre-production. Moayed writes and directs the Emmy-nominated The Accidental Wolf, a thriller starring Kelli O’Hara, exclusively on Topic. Additional Waterwell productions include a dual-language Hamlet, in which Moayed played the title role, and a remount of a forgotten war musical called Blueprint Specials. Notable acting credits include The Humans, for which he won a Drama Desk Award, his Obie Award-winning role in Guards at the Taj, and his Tony-nominated turn in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Current projects include 28 Mordad and the Christmas radio play The Man in Red. Moayed can be seen in HBO’s Succession and the upcoming Shonda Rhimes/Netflix’s Inventing Anna.