THE HOLE STUDIO
ABOUT THE HOLE STUDIO
Where Performance Dances
Founded in Toronto (2025), The Hole Studio is a non-profit interdisciplinary laboratory fusing contemporary performance art, postmodern theater, and bold cinematic storytelling. We reject static categories, crafting works that pulse with cultural hybridity, diasporic identity, and radical collaboration. Born from the collision of Tehran’s underground avant-garde and Toronto’s experimental energy, we inhabit raw, repurposed spaces—warehouses, alleyways, forgotten screens—to ask: What happens when art refuses to sit still?
Our answer: A performance that dances.
Adventure Awaits
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Rules for the Road
Negar Nemati
Negar is a Costume Designer with more than fifteen years of experience. She Studied Theatre at Tehran University of Fine Arts and has gained the knowledge to design memorable characters both in the theatre and movie industry through the years.
Her latest costume design was in “Universal Language” directed by Matthew Rankin. the movie is on the shortlist of the 2025 Academy Awards for Best International Movie of the Year.
Two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi and internationally acclaimed theatre director Amir Reza Koohestani are among many great directors with whom she has collaborated.
Negar’s costume design in “A Hero” directed by Asghar Farhadi was nominated for Best Costume Design in Film and TV- International in the 2022 CAFTCAD Awards. She was awarded Best Costume Design in 2018 for the Berlinale nominated movie “Pig.” In 2016, she was awarded in the same category for the movie “A Dragon Arrives”.
As a theatre costume designer, Negar has worked in prestigious theatres in Iran, Germany, Austria and Canada.
Based in Canada, Negar has been a proud member of CAFTCAD and IATSE 873
Slow Sound of Snow
the best Director Award
Boundaries
Paris 2024
2022 Tehran
Audience
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short movie
Jaber Ramezan
Jaber Ramezan has been a writer, director and choreographer, both in the theatre and movie industry, for more than 15 years. He also researches contemporary forms of playwriting and engages with these new contents as a dramaturge. His published plays have been translated into English and French. His debut play, “Slow Sound of Snow” (2014), performed in Tehran, established his name as a talented young Iranian director of innovative plays and brought him multiple awards. His play “The Audience,” which addressed domestic violence against Iranian women, was censored and shut down by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The play was accused of being vulgar and promoting sexual violence, according to the laws of the Islamic Republic. He then moved to Canada in 2024 and co-founded The Hole Studio, pursuing his Career in his new home. The films and plays Jaber has written and directed have been selected and performed in prestigious international festivals. “Boundaries of Bodies“ Théâtre de la VilleSarah-Bernhardt stage Paris, France, 2024; “Swim Team,” SummerWorks Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2018; “We Cannot Talk About It” George Town Festival, Malaysia, 2018, to name a few.
Co-Artistic Directors
Negar Nemati
Costume Designer / Dramaturge and Animation maker
Jaber Ramezan
Producer / Writer/Director and Choreographer