Saul Karim Nassau
PERFORMANCE & LIVE EVENTS
Toronto, Ontario · 416-771-0382 · saulnassau@protonmail.com
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PROFILE
Performance and live-event practitioner with experience contributing to public programs, stage and festival environments, collaborative production and audience-facing cultural work.

KEY SKILLS
• Live performance
• Rehearsal and preparation
• Stage and event awareness
• Audience engagement
• Collaborative production
• Festival operations
• Creative development
• Public presentation
• Event setup and teardown
• Documentation

SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Volunteer, BUMI Festival | 2026–Present
• Volunteer support for a Toronto-area festival sustained through shared participation, cultural programming, and community work.
Volunteer, Event and Hospitality Operations — BUMI Festival | 2025–present, 2025
• 2025–present Supports setup and teardown, check-in, guest and vendor service, food and beverage service, backstage and grounds, cleaning, transportation, information, security and crowd management.
• Participated in 2025 festival work and 2026 planning and preparation.
Sears Ontario Drama Festival | 2005, 2006, 2007
• Ontario's oldest and largest high school drama festival, founded 1946.
• Competed in Grades 9, 10, and 11 through Claude Watson.
Relevant Experience | Toronto · 2020, 2023
• Assistant Manager — Pizza Pizza, Toronto c.
• 2020–early 2023 Supervised front-counter and kitchen shifts
• supported scheduling, staff training and service flow.
Volunteer, Flydende By (Floating City), Copenhagen | 2015–2016
• Non-profit art collective building boats from recycled materials since 2008.
• Cooking, construction, and film production support.
Event Security and Front-of-House; Special Events and Nightclub, Toronto | c. 2018–2020
• Two pre-pandemic years working private security at a downtown Toronto gay club and a rotating set of special events.
• Always the de-escalation role at the door, diplomatic conversation as the primary tool, physical intervention as the rare last resort.
• Ontario Security Guard License.

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS
• AODA Accessibility Standards training — June 2026
• Smart Serve — completed during Pizza Pizza employment (historical)
• Food Handler training — completed during Pizza Pizza employment (historical)
• Ontario Security Guard Licence — held during the COVID-19 period (historical)
• Bronze Cross and First Aid — completed at age 16 (historical)

LANGUAGES
• Farsi — advanced
• French — basic
• Mandarin — basic