Leila Bela
Leila Bela (Persian: ليلى بلا ) (born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born American avant-garde musician, writer, photographer, actress, multi-instrumentalist, playwright and record producer from Austin, Texas.
Biography
Bela was born in Tehran, Iran to a family of Persian aristocrats. In her teens, she began writing freelance articles about underground music for various local papers. Her first major job was an interview with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, she had been told by the paper to just cover the show but upon seeing her Trent Reznor introduced himself and offered her an interview and allowed her to use his recorder to record it and she accepted, he later invited her to the opening of the very first Lollapalooza as his guest and reporter. She started her first magazine in 1998 while attending college at The University of Houston on a full scholarship as honor student, where she majored in theatre and physics, with a minor in Literature and independent studies in photography and playwriting. She was one of five students chosen out of thousands of people who had submitted plays from her theatre school to study with Edward Albee, an award-winning playwright known for his dark themes. Her Shakespeare audition in her second year at university also landed her in a class taught by master Shakesperean director Sir Peter Hall who chose four people to teach during one semester in Houston. She performed such roles as Natalia in Three Sisters in 2001, Lady Nijo in Top Girls in 2002, Regan in King Lear, Pheobe in As You Like It, and Antigone in Antigone.
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