From the spaces between colour and silence, my creative path has unfolded through many forms; theatre, film, design, and expressive arts therapy, all guided by a single impulse:

to listen, to witness, to transform.

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I was trained as a theatre designer at the Art and Architecture Azad University in Iran, where I first discovered how light, fabric, and space can hold emotion as vividly as words. My early years in Iran were filled with collaborations in film and theatre, designing for productions such as Protest by Masoud Kimiaei, and directing short experimental films like I Have Become, inspired by Peter Handke’s Self-Accusation.

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When I moved to Canada in 2002, I carried these stories, textures, and memories across borders. Here, my work found new forms. Merging theatre, film, and visual arts into interdisciplinary performances that speak to migration, belonging, and the rhythm of transformation. I have collaborated with companies such as Modern Times Stage Company, Pacific Opera, Canadian Stage, Mercury Theatre, Mixed Theatre Company, Bamahang Studios, Bam-Stage, The Chamber Music Society of Mississauga, and Cultureland. 

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In 2006, I co-founded and was Co-Artistic Director of Under the Azure Dome Festival at Harbourfront Centre, a celebration of Iranian arts and performance. Two years later, I became the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Theatre, Film, and Décor Departments of the Tirgan Festival, helping to shape what would become one of North America’s largest Iranian arts festivals.

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In 2009, I founded Godot Art Productions (GAP) — a non-profit company dedicated to creating inter-art and interdisciplinary productions that merge theatre, film, music, and visual art. Through GAP, I directed and produced works such as Less Than a Half (2009), Homeland (2010), and Homeland Variations (2011), pieces that weave together live performance, documentary film, and sound to explore identity and home.

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Over time, my creative practice began to reach beyond the stage and the screen, toward spaces of listening, care, and transformation. I realized the same creative force that animates a performance or a film also lives within each person’s capacity to imagine, express, and heal.

 

This realization led me to study Expressive Arts Therapy at the CREATE Institute in Toronto, where I completed a three-year training program. The work deepened my understanding of the dialogue between creation and empathy. How art can open doors to meaning, connection, and emotional freedom.

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Since then, I have facilitated individual and group sessions for children, parents, and newcomers, as well as community-based workshops exploring belonging, resilience, and creative expression. I have collaborated with organizations such as COSTI, Footprints Therapy in Innisfil, ILFO, Innisfil Library, and the Small World Music Centre, offering programs that blend expressive arts, movement, rhythm, mindfulness and storytelling to nurture healing and connection.

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My work with children and families has taught me that imagination is an inner compass, a quiet guide that helps us navigate uncertainty, fear, and change. Whether through painting, rhythm, or simple play, art gives shape to what words cannot hold. It becomes a space for both release and discovery, a conversation between the seen and unseen parts of ourselves.

 

Art-making, in its deepest form, is a way of being in relationship with oneself, with others, and with life itself. It continues to remind me that the artist and the therapist within me are not separate, but two voices in the same creative dialogue: one that listens, one that responds, both grounded in wonder.

My journey continues to evolve at the meeting place of art and empathy, a space where imagination becomes a way of knowing, and creation becomes a way of connecting. Each project, each session, each shared moment of expression feels like a continuation of that first impulse to listen, to colour, to rhythm, to the silent breath between stories.

 

Through every form I work in — theatre, film, visual arts, or therapy — I am guided by the same question:
how can art help us remember our wholeness?

In that remembering, I find purpose, belonging, and an ever-deepening gratitude for the fragile, beautiful rhythm of being fully, passionately, and lovingly alive.