Acting
Ava Lalezarzadeh
USA
Ava Lalezarzadeh is an actress and writer/poet from Southern California. She made her Off-Broadway debut originating the role of Goli in Atlantic Theater Co/Roundabout Theater Co’s English—recipient of an Obie award 2023 and Lucille Lortel award for Best Play. Credits include a series regular role in the pilot Wild Life (HBO/Imagine Ent), a guest star in New Amsterdam (NBC), and voices a new character in the upcoming season of Big Mouth (Netflix). Ava’s screenplay In the Garden of Tulips won the screenwriting competition at HollyShorts Film Festival 2022. Currently, World Premiering at the Oscar Qualifying Aspen Shortfest is her proof of concept short film, In the Garden of Tulips.
Acting credits
NRThe comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, their wildly different dreams, frustrations, and secrets come to light. Can they overcome the limits of language to discover what they really want to say.
English
2025
9.3In 1970s Los Angeles, rebellious queer teen Margaret gets thrown out of yet another foster placement and finds herself in the company of a mysterious social worker who's tasked with finding her a new home before the break of dawn. At odds and forced to travel the city together, Margaret realizes that running may not be her only option.
Dandelion
2025
Amid the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Yasamin moves to the USA and navigates the trials and tribulations of assimilation through the waxing of a unibrow.
Yasamin
2018
NRWhen a Luxury Building Development tries to force out a diverse community in London's 'Little Arabia', they choose to stand their ground and band together to protect their hard won new homes in London.
London Arabia
2019
8.0Amidst the 1988 war, Caroline takes a car ride with her father to the Iranian countryside of Birjand.
In the Garden of Tulips
2023
NRAn Armenian-American woman struggling with cultural and familial pressures tries to live her truth and do right by her daughter.
The Pursuit
2018
At the onset of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a Persian-Jewish mother is forced to question her faith in her country.
Winter of '79
2022