Laith Zuaiter

Laith Zuaiter is a Brooklyn raised actor/director/producer. He started out acting through The New York Shakespeare festival as a kid and since has been acting, directing, producing and writing films and theatre with his friends and family. He makes films under the label, Friendly Stranger Entertainment, a production company started in 2014 at his high school at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts with a team of individuals who were trying to find a group of friends to make a film in a 64 hour film festival run by the school. They happened to find each other, and throughout acknowledged the beauty of them being friendly strangers and went ahead to call their group for the festival by the same name. Laith also attended this high school with his little sister Nour Zuaiter, who is also an Actor/Writer/Director/Producer, she attended DePaul University for Directing for Staged Theatre. Laith got his start in 2007, when booking a Spike Lee pilot for NBC called, M.O.N.Y and had his on screen debut alongside, Bobby Cannavale. Laith is son of actor/producer, Waleed Zuaiter and Joana B. Zuaiter, manager. Laith has worked immensely behind the scenes, crewing for films such as 20th Century Women, Finding Steve McQueen, and A24's RAMY. Laith also finds himself working alongside notable artists such as David Choe, and has found himself acting in the LA Opera's production of Carmen (2017). He is bi-coastal between LA and New York. Laith has no limits when it comes to learning about the diverse world of entertainment and is excited to be apart of its transformation.