Maya Arad Yasur playwright

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Maya Arad (1976) is a dramaturge and playwright. She holds an M.A. in Dramaturgy from the University of Amsterdam where she graduated with distinction. In the years 2007-2012 Maya has been living in the Netherlands, working as a production dramaturge. She has been the dramaturge of several award-winning theatre performances which tour in festivals around Europe. Maya returned to Israel in 2012 and has been working since as a freelance dramaturge and playwright. Her plays have been staged and publicly read in various theatres in Israel, Germany, Austria, Norway and the U.S. and were published in leading theatre magazines in Germany, Poland and Israel. Winner of Theatertreffen Stuckemarkt 2018.

Awards:

1st prize of the international playwriting competition of ITI–UNESCO for Suspended (2011)

Habima (Israel’s national theatre) prize for emerging playwrights for God Waits at the Station (2014)

Theatertreffen’s Stückemarkt prize for Amsterdam (2018)

Plays

The Exiteers Absurd | 2020   
BOMB A-genre | 2020   
AMSTERDAM A-genre Subject: Bourgeoisie, Capitalism | 2018   
Suspended Drama Subject: Friendship, Human Soul, Refugees, The Other, War | 2016   
Ten Minutes from Home Drama Subject: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Biography, History, Struggle, Terror, War | 2015   
God Waits at the Station Drama Subject: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Terror, War | 2014   
Diamond Stars Drama | 2010   

* Temporary display of non-catalogued plays

AMSTERDAM (2018)

SUSPENDED  (2016)

TEN MINUTES FROM HOME (2015)

GOD WAITS AT THE STATION (2014)

 

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