Leila Kashani-Sabet (she/her) is an Iranian actor and facilitator. In her work, she draws on her experiences as a queer, diasporic, and first generation Middle Eastern-American. She offers three services:

• Acting

• Culture Building & Anti-Oppression Facilitation

• Community Facilitation

As an actor, she is passionate about using theater and art as a vessel for personal and collective transformation. She aims to use her artistry to tell transformational stories about QTBIPOC communities that help us all heal and dream up new worlds.

As a culture building facilitator, Leila uses her 8+ years of experience to deliver practical and values-aligned solutions to your company, organization, or community. She centers joy and care in her work, creating hands-on processes for everyone to get involved in.

As a community facilitator, Leila facilitates intentional spaces, workshops, meetings, and artistic processes for QTBIPOC communities. She builds containers to foster and deepen connection, community building, identity exploration, artistry, and so much more. She sees creativity and theater as essential to our healing and integrates it into her community work. Leila’s approach is based on cultivating liberated spaces and ways of being in the now.

Leila graduated from Brown University, with Honors in Modern Culture and Media and Magna Cum Laude. Her thesis, a devised play rooted in oral histories and cultural traditions, was awarded the department prize.

Leila roots her work in and pays deep homage to the ongoing and ever enduring legacy of Black women pioneers and freedom fighters who have always paved the way.