Anton Obeid

From the bank to the plank. ------ Since end of 2009 (following a 20-year career in the investment banking industry in New York, London and Hong Kong), Anton has been pursuing his passion through a more honest means of expression: on stage and in front of the camera. Theater credits: Le Problème (a lead in a French+English production by ARACA Project), Arsenic and Old Lace, Many Mansions (lead), The American Wife, The Blue Room, Measure for Measure, The Play Is the Thing, Romeo and Juliet, The Seagull, The Three Cuckolds. Film credits: Last Night (Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection), 36 Saints, The Dictator (opposite Sacha Baron Cohen), The Lobby Writer, Front of House, Good Days Bad Days, Happiness. He studied acting at HB Studio and Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City. He also has Ivy-League education from Columbia University with Masters in Computer Science and Chemistry. In between all, Anton climbed Kilimanjaro, hiked the Arctic Circle, ran the Milford Track to the Tasman Sea, sailed the Magellan Strait in Patagonia/Tierra Del Fuego, bungee-jumped 300 ft into Skippers Canyon and skied the French, Austrian, and Italian Alps. Oh yes! He also survived a civil war in his home country of Lebanon.