Riad trained at East 15.

Theatre includes: Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep); The Massacre at Paris, Tamburlaine Parts I & II (The Malthouse Theatre); Jabala and the Jinn (Lyric Hammersmith, Tour); The Comedy of Errors (RSC Tour); The Whip, A Museum in Baghdad (RSC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Squares); The Show in which Hopefully Nothing Happens (Unicorn Theatre); Tartuffe, Timon of Athens, Tamburlaine (RSC); Macbeth, Frankenstein (Ovalhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Royal Bath); Mark and the Marked, Getting There, Passenger, Merchant of Venice (Box Clever); Saturday Night Fever (Troxy, Future Cinema); The Scarlet Pimpernel (Tower of London); Dick Turpin, LOL, The Changeling (Clifftown Theatre).

Film Includes: Said in Passing (Forced Path Pictures); Romeo & Juliet (Camberwell Studios); Jude Starbeam and the Mind Mission (On the Button); Asylum; Nocturne (NFTS).

Radio: Splinter Cell: Firewall (BBC)

Stunts: Vikings: Valhalla, Lead Fencer for Disney in Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella. Combat for Adam Randalls iBoy, Jesse V Johnson’s Accident Man, Suj Ahmed’s The Gates of Vanity, Future Cinema with BBC’s The Musketeers and Martin Kemp’s Top Dog.

Riad has also appeared in various commercials globally.