Jared Raab

Director & actor · Ontario, Canada

Jared Raab is a Canadian writer and filmmaker, best known for his work on the television series Nirvanna the Band the Show.

Originally from Millbrook, Ontario, Raab studied film at York University. He made a number of short films before breaking through to wider attention with his 2011 short The Revenge Plot, which won the Fan Favorite award at the 2011 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition. For a number of years thereafter he was a director of music videos for artists such as Born Ruffians, Arkells, Ohbijou, Diamond Rings, PS I Love You, Snailhouse, Young Rival and Fast Romantics. He received two Prism Prize nominations as a director of music videos, in 2017 for July Talk's "Picturing Love" and in 2021 for Andy Shauf's "Clove Cigarette".

Where to start: Operation Avalanche (2016).