BIO | LAARA SADIQ
Laara Sadiq is an award winning actor with over 30 years experience in theatre, film, television and voice-over across Turtle Island. She holds a BFA from the University of British Columbia, on unceded Musqueam Territory.
Selected theatre: The Lost Words (Elektra Women’s Choir), Joyride (Caravan Farm Theatre), The Doll’s House Project (Director/Studio 58), The Second Woman (Performing Lines-Australia/Harbourfront Centre-Toronto), The Orchard (After Chekhov) , The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The Penelopiad , The Age of Arousal (Arts Club Theatre), Happy Place, Brothel #9, Eternal Hydra, Palace of the End (Touchstone Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing & A Winters Tale (Bard on the Beach), Our Town (Caravan Farm Theatre), Cake and Dirt (Tarragon Theatre), No Exit (Electric Company on tour @ American Conservatory Theatre/Nightwood Theatre/High Performance Rodeo/Theatre Calgary/WCTC), St Carmen of The Main, Nativity, Romeo & Juliet (National Arts Centre resident acting company), Crime and Punishment (PUSH Festival/Neworld Theatre).
Selected TV/Film: Send the Rain (Boldly Productions - Best Short Film 2022/Director’s Guild of Canada), Hardy Boys (Hulu), Chesapeake Shores (Hallmark), Virgin River (Netflix), Resident Alien (SYFY), Yellowjackets (Showtime), Transcendence (Indian Summer Festival 2021), Charmed (The CW), Maid (Netflix), Twelve Hours (TIFF 2021 Premiere, Sweet George Films), . Recurring roles: Family Law (Global TV), The Murders (CityTV), Arrow (The CW), Remedy (Global TV) Heartland (CBC). The InBetween, Search and Destroy, Colony, The Crossing, The Arrangement, Eyewitness, The Code, The Strain, The Baroness Von Sketch Show, Rogue, Killjoys, Hemlock Grove , Degrassi, Michael Tuesdays and Thursdays, Special Correspondents (Feature/Ricky Gervais), Happily Ever After (Feature/Joan Carr Wiggin), Excited (Feature/Bruce Sweeney-TIFF, VIFF, Palm Springs FF).
As a voice-over artist, Laara can be heard in cartoons, documentary narration, audiobooks and radio/TV commercial throughout Canada and the US. In 2018 she was honoured with a nomination for Outstanding Voice Performance at the Annie Awards in LA, for her work in The Breadwinner. This animated feature film, executive produced by Angelina Jolie, was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award, and was the recipient of the LA Film Critics Circle Award, the Annie Award for Best Independent Feature, and the Cinema for Peace Justice Award. In October 2021, she narrated System Failure, an immersive outdoor audio experience for the Caravan Farm Theatre.
Upcoming/In development: Hagmouth - Eco site-specific piece, co-created with Lois Anderson (Canada Council for the Arts, Boca del Lupo, SLaM, Lena Artist Residency,The Narrows Art Retreat. An Undeveloped Sound - World Premiere 2023, Dir. Jonathon Young: Electric Company Theatre/SFU/PUSH Festival.
Laara respectfully makes her home on unceded Coast Salish Territory. In addition to her work as an artist, she is a Mama, activist, teacher/knowledge sharer, beekeeper, farmer, forager, feeder, avid runner, hiker, novice surfer, bike cruiser, curates/chefs lovebowl, a community long table dinner series. And a few other things.
Power to the People.