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RADIO COMMERCIALS
RADIO COMMERCIALS
ILANA ZACKON
DO THE RIGHT THING
The Braid, Los Angeles
"Performers Ethan Remez-Cott and Ilana Zackon have wonderful singing voices. Their renditions of “Standing Up” by Mike Himelstein and “I Have a Voice” by Elana Arian are crowd favorites (...) In “Mrs. Big Shot,” a daughter comes to the hospital to care for her musician father, who needs heart surgery. Given the number of family members in the waiting room, the daughter (performed brilliantly by Zackon) offers to buy coffee for everyone."
- Larchmont Buzz, 2026
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DO THE RIGHT THING
The Braid, Los Angeles
"The stories are brought to life by veteran Braid actors Jasmine Curry (“I Loved Jew, I Loved Jew Not”), Jeanette Horn (“The New Colossus,” “The Art of Forgiveness”), Ethan Remez-Cott (“Bat Boy: The Musical,” “As You Like It”), Rick Zieff (“Yiddle with a Fiddle,” “Stories from the Violins of Hope”) and Braid newcomer Ilana Zackon (“Riverdale”)."
- Jewish Journal, 2026
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DO THE RIGHT THING, The Braid
Los Angeles
"The Braid will open its 2026 season with Do The Right Thing. The production brings to the stage five actors performing a curated collection of stories exploring a timeless question: What happens when doing the right thing comes at a cost? Directed by The Braid's Producing Director Susan Morgenstern, the show features veteran Braid actors, (...) and newcomer to The Braid Ilana Zackon."
- Broadway World, 2026
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"GRAIN A WINNER: MontreaI's Ilana Zackon wrote, directed, produced and voice acted in Grain, a short film that just won the Toon Boom Award for Best 2D Short Film at the 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival. I had a chance to see it and the multi-talented Zackon deserves praise for her work."
- The Suburban, 2025
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GRAIN
A film by Ilana Zackon
"Blending family history with political activism and song, multidisciplinary performer Ilana Zackon presented a performance on Montreal’s role in the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and the Soviet Jewry Movement on March 27 at the Museum of Jewish Montreal."
- The Suburban, 2025
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KEMFN TSUZAMEN
Museum of Jewish Montreal
"Actors Joshua Kilimnik, Ilana Zackon, Miranda Wiseman and director Max Ackerman re-enact scenes from Justice: a Holocaust Zombie Story."
- The Forward, 2024
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JUSTICE: A HOLOCAUST ZOMBIE STORY
Ashkenaz Festival
"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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MAZEL TOV
Infinitheatre Montreal
"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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I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO BE FREE
Online Parody
"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
LISTEN TO INTERVIEW here.
THE GREAT CANADIAN P-RNO: THE MUSICAL
Cranial Millenials, Vancouver
"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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TIME MACHINE
Radix Theatre, Vancouver
"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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PULL FEST VII
Speakeasy Theatre, Vancouver
PART I
Project X Performance, Montreal
“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 Bbrmaid forced to grow up quickly during a tense and violent evening."
- Broadway World, 2014
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GLORY DAZED
Waterworks Company, Montreal
“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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UNDER MILK WOOD
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland