Actress Anita Abdinezhad tells stories which capture life and all its trimmings. After earning her MFA from Columbia, she entered her Broadway debut, POTUS: OR behind every dumbass are seven women trying to keep him alive, which has with met rave reviews, understudying for such seasoned performers as Rachel Dratch, Julliane Hough and Lilli Cooper. Her versatility encompasses a unique array of both comedic and dramatic performances in works like Sideways Smile, Eradication, Repetence and Amaceing America. We discuss our mutual upbringing as U.S. immigrants; tenets which motivate her decision-making; what it feels like to be featured in a Tony Award nominated play; and the experience of being also being a writer and filmmaker.
Opening Credits: The Unsacred Hearts - 1978 I Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US); Closing Credits: The Special Pillow - 3rd of July I Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)