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RADIO COMMERCIALS
RADIO COMMERCIALS
ILANA ZACKON
"The CJN's nomadic columnist and podcaster is also a multidisciplinary performer--who scored her first major role since the pandemic fell in a different kind of Jewish play."
- THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS, 2022
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"Meanwhile former Montrealer Ilana Zackon has been in touch. Her grandfather commissioned her to write a parody song about COVID-19. She did so and posted it here to YouTube It's set to the tune of "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" from Disney's The Lion King and has been getting great reception. I must say I watched it at least half a dozen times."
- THE SUBURBAN, 2020
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"We started the show with an interview with Ilana Zackon the director of "THE GREAT CANADIAN P-RNO: THE MUSICAL" which will be having its premier at this year's Vancouver Fringe Festival."
- CITR 101.9 FM, 2019
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"Two Jewish theatre artist-creators, Ariel Martz-Oberlander and Ilana Zackon, teamed up this summer to create an immersive piece based on the Jewish partisan movement, as part of Radix Theatre’s futuristic play Time Machine, set on a boat, the Pride of Vancouver."
- JEWISH INDEPENDANT, 2019
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"The Pull Festival, Vancouver’s annual festival of ten minute plays, returns for its seventh year featuring new works from Vancouver-based playwrights. In the latest in our series with this year’s Pull Festival directors, we find out more from Ilana Zackon about what brought her to the festival, and the two plays she will direct."
- VANCOUVER PRESENTS, 2018
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“Project X Performance Part 1” uses dance, music, and theatre to tell personal stories of depression, anxiety and eating disorders, and crippling fears. Performers Mercedeh Baroque, Jacqueline Van de Geer, Lyne Labrie, and Ilana Zackon bring fierce, powerful honesty to their stories. They use the body to physically express the pain, shame, and terror of a condition beyond their control and the struggle for help."
- CURTAINS UP, 2016
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“Kevin Black plays Ray, a despised, homeless veteran with a hair-trigger temper. Tali Brady is his estranged wife Carla, Nicholas MacMahon is pub-owner Simon, and Ilana Zackon portrays Leanne, the young barmaid forced to grow up quickly during a tense and violent evening."
- BROADWAY WORLD, 2014
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“It’s still really hard to process that our next performance is going to be in Scotland, let alone Europe. To be part of one the largest theatre festivals in the world, among thousands of other Fringe shows, is so unreal. I’m sure it’s going to be an incredible experience."
- DYLAN THOMAS NEWS, 2013
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