I’m from somewhere between Everywhere, I-Don’t-Know-Anymore and Montreal.

I’m an actor, with a love of games and plays, in physical and virtual worlds.

I also have a legal practice.

RECENT Experience

Actor, ACTRA | Union des Artistes | Canadian Actors’ Equity Association

Unionized professional actor in the video games, live performance, film and television industries.

IMDB | Cameo Agency | Performance-Capture Demo

Immersive XR Creator, Something Magic

Founder of immersive XR performance development centre, drawing on the traditions of live performance to breathe life into virtual, augmented and mixed reality.

Intellectual Property Lawyer, Nakhjavani & Nakhjavani | CWB | PETOŠEVIĆ

Consultant in the entertainment and media sector (games, film, television), as well as in live performance. Possess a strong background in copyright, in addition to a familiarity with the IP challenges presented by the advent of virtual worlds. Managed a range of contentious and non-contentious IP protection matters in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Research-Creation Grantee, Canada Council of the Arts

Canadian Council of the Arts Research-Creation grantee, conducting research for Muse of Fire, an immersive XR project on the legacy of Izzet Orujova, Azerbaijan’s first female screen actor, who removed her headscarf in character while playing the eponymous role in the silent film Sevil (1929), which ignited a firestorm of social change in the country.

Education

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

University of Bristol | Université de Montréal

English, European, Quebec and Canadian law, with a focus on human rights, intellectual property.

Skills

Languages

Fluent English and French.

Intermediate Azerbaijani and Persian.

Basic Russian.

Technology

Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator and Audition.

Drawing & Painting

Skilled in representational art. Working from life has acquainted me with a newfound trust in my very capacity to see, albeit behind the prism of post-traumatic double vision.

Interests

Travel

Canada, United States of America, Cuba, Colombia.

Ísland, Éire, Scotland, Wales, England, Portugal, España, France, Belgique, Nederland, Luxembourg, Deutschland, Suisse, Liechtenstein, Österreich, Lietuva, Italia, Ελλάδα, Κύπρος.

Kıbrıs, Türkiye, Россия, Azərbaycan, საქართველოს.

South Africa, Senegal, Namibia, R.D. Congo, R. Congo, Cameroun, République centrafricaine, Kenya, Uganda.

فلسطين

History

By which I mean: history from below, peoples’ histories, untold histories, the stories of the movements of the masses, the stories encoded in the subtext of History™.

Hockey

I get pucks deep.