ILANA ZACKON

Ilana Zackon is a Canadian actor, voice over artist, singer, writer, director, and award-winning filmmaker. She is best known for her short film, Grain, which won the Toon Boom Award for Best 2D Short Film at the 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival. Ilana is also a Nominee for the Audience Choice Award for Outstanding Online Content at the 17th Annual OVATION! Awards, for her online musical parody I Just Can't Wait To Be Free.

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Ilana has over 40 voice-over credits in commercials, animation and video games. Video game roles include Mazaam in Mazaam - The Musical Genius (Analekta), Katanira in Disciples: Liberation (Frima Studios) and Catalyst in Livelock (Tuque Games). Ilana has been the voice of international brands including Colgate, Buick and Nestea, as well as highly regarded Canadian companies such as Intact Insurance, Desjardins Group and Hydro Quebec. Animation credits include Naya in the multi-award-winning Quebec feature film, Katak The Brave Beluga.

 

Notable theatre performances include Isabelle in the English-language Premiere of Mazel Tov (Infinitheatre Montreal), Ilana in the World Premiere of So, How Should I Be? (Presentation House Theatre, North Vancouver), Polly Garter in Under Milk Wood (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), as well as multiple original multidisciplinary performances co-created with Vancouver-based company, Theatre Conspiracy. Theatre directing credits include An Assertive Girl and Teddy Bears at Speakeasy Theatre's Pull Fest VII and the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominated The Great Canadian Porno: The Musical at the 2019 Vancouver Fringe Festival.

 

She is the former co-host of the CJN Podcast Network podcasts Culturally Jewish and Bonjour Chai.

Ilana's writing has been published in The Canadian Jewish News and Kveller.
 

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