Montreal native Ariel Ifergan is an actor and director for both theatre and television, who also co-founded the artistic production company Les Productions Pas de Panique.
Ifergan’s career in the performing arts began in 2009. He has played various roles in some 20 Quebec productions, on stage and on television. He has also directed a number of critically-acclaimed theatre productions. He holds a degree in Performing Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
Ifergan has performed in several popular television series in Quebec including: Virginie, Délirium, Watatatow, Tout sur moi, Bienvenue aux dames, Trauma, Jeunes loups. In 2007, in a virtuoso performance, he portrayed every character in Z comme Zadig, an adaptation of Voltaire’s famous play, co-written with director Anne Millaire.
He has directed two plays so far: L’Augmentation by Georges Perec in 2013 and Le Visiteur by Éric Emmanuel Schmidt in 2016.
He has also acted in two short films: Sur la ligne, produced by Frédéric Desager, and Next Floor, produced by famed Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. Next Floor received a Palme d’Or award for Best Short Film at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2003, Ifergan and Alexandre Frenette co-founded an artistic production company, Les Productions Pas de Panique. It has won several awards, including first prize in the Quebec Entrepreneurship Contest for the Montreal Region and the Prix pour la jeunesse, awarded by the Agence Québec-Wallonie Bruxelles. Les Productions Pas de Panique creates, produces and broadcasts artistic work for educational purposes.
In 2017, Ifergan will perform in the play Qu’est-ce qu’on a fait au bon Dieu? directed by the famous Quebec actress and producer Denise Filiatrault.
