
RAHA JAVANFAR
Born in Tehran, Iran and raised in Toronto, ON.
SOULPEPPER 2023: Lighting Designer: Billie, Sarah, and Ella: Revolutionary Women in Jazz, Sizwe Banzi is Dead. Performer: Detroit: Music of the Motor City.
FOR SOULPEPPER: Lighting Designer: The Brothers Size, The Big Easy, Route 66, Porgy and Bess, The Canadian Pacific Railway, Manhattan Concert Cycle: Vol 2 Midtown - 42nd Street and Broadway, Vol 3: Uptown -To Harlem. Performer: The Golden Record, Rose, 88 Keys, The Promised Land: Steinbeck Through Song, The 27 Club, Riverboat Coffee House: The Yorkville Scene.
OTHER THEATRE: Performer: Now You See Her (Quote Unquote Collective); Lighting Designer: Aurash (Tirgan Festival); Projections Designer: Der Freischutz (Opera Atelier), Projections Designer: Tafelmusik; Performer and Co-Creator: Now You See Her (Quote Unquote Collective/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre/WhyNot)
OTHER: Bad Luck Woman & Her Misfortunes (Front woman/bassist); The Double Cuts (fiddle); Zuze (electric violin); Graduate of the Ryerson Theatre School. Raha is a co-recipient of a Siminovitch Protege award for lighting design, a Dora nominee for playwrighting, and a Maple Blues Award nominee in music. She teaches lighting design at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson).