Izad Etemadi
Izad Etemadi is a Canadian actor, writer and comedian.[1] He is most noted for his supporting role as Ben in the web series Settle Down, for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Web Series at the 14th Canadian Screen Awards in 2026.[2]
Originally from Victoria, British Columbia, he is currently based in Toronto, Ontario.[3]
In 2023 he starred as Phil in the short comedy film Plant Daddy, which premiered at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival after winning ACTRA's Queer Your Stories Short Film Competition.[4] His other performances have included recurring roles in Orphan Black: Echoes and Overlord and the Underwoods, supporting roles in the films Shook and Mother Father Sister Brother Frank, and the web series Cyrus and Chels and Revenge of the Black Best Friend.
He has also been a producer, with credits including Cyrus and Chels, Plant Daddy and Lunar Sway.
He has also worked in theatre, including productions of Grow,[5] Elf,[6] Frozen, Come from Away,[7] Mad Madge[8] and The Bidding War.[9]
His credits as a writer have included the stage play We Are Not the Others,[10] as well as several solo comedy shows including Love with Leila and A Very Leila Christmas, in both of which he played a bearded lady,[11] and Let Me Explain, a stand-up comedy show about his identity as a queer man of Iranian descent.[12] In 2017 he was the winner of the Emerging Queer Artist Award from Buddies in Bad Times.[13]
References
[edit]- ↑ Raevin Larue, "Settle Down And Let Us Live. Izad Etemadi Is Over The Stereotypes.". Screenfish, April 27, 2025.
- ↑ Andrew Mack, "Canadian Screen Awards 2026: 40 ACRES, HONEY BUNCH, MILE END KICKS And NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE Lead Nominees". Screen Anarchy, March 25, 2026.
- ↑ Izad Etemadi, "POV: Why I turned on Uber and went back to cabs". Definitely Not the Opera, February 19, 2016.
- ↑ Angelica Babiera, "In Brief: Plant Daddy wins outACTRAto shorts competition". Playback, January 5, 2023.
- ↑ J. Kelly Nestruck, "Grow, Colleen and Akiva’s new musical comedy about Amish twins and cannabis trade, could be the next Come From Away: Grow is fresh and funny with enough beautiful ballads and soaring anthems to give audiences the warm fuzzies". The Globe and Mail, April 25, 2022.
- ↑ Joe Belanger, "It's a hit! Elf becomes Grand Theatre's highest-grossing show". London Free Press, January 5, 2023.
- ↑ Joe Szekeres, "Stirring and rousing. The Grand’s ‘Come From Away’ continues in spreading its messages of compassion and kindness amid the worst of circumstances.". Our Theatre Voice, May 31, 2026.
- ↑ Ilana Lucas, "Mad Madge is a rollicking, no-holds-barred ahistorical romp that aims for a blazing world of glory: Mad Madge screams with the best of them, but it’s in the moments where Margaret quietly drops the persona to show the vulnerability behind her desperate need for love that the play fully connects". The Globe and Mail, April 12, 2024.
- ↑ Joshua Chong, "Unreal estate: 'The Bidding War' turns Toronto's housing crisis into uproarious satire at Crow's Theatre". Toronto Star, November 26, 2024.
- ↑ Joe Belanger, "Play probes struggles, hopes of immigrants". London Free Press, November 8, 2017.
- ↑ Valerie Hill, "Leila's back, and sassier than ever: Comedian Izad Etemadi's alter ego puts on a Christmas party with hilarious results". Waterloo Region Record, December 13, 2018.
- ↑ "Here's the skinny on 10 Fringe shows". Hamilton Spectator, July 13, 2024.
- ↑ Peter Knegt, "https://www.cbc.ca/arts/40-years-40-queers-celebrating-the-tremendous-impact-buddies-in-bad-times-has-had-on-our-lives-1.4824708 "40 years, 40 queers: Celebrating the tremendous impact Buddies in Bad Times has had on our lives"]. CBC Arts, September 19, 2018.
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