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Avraham Oz is Professor Emeritus at the University of Haifa and resident director at Alfa Theatre Tel Aviv. Oz, who holds degrees from Tel Aviv University and The University of Bristol, translated numerous plays and operas, including 9 Shakespeare’s plays. His translations from the German include Brecht’s Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit, Mahagonny-Songspiel and Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Die Dreigroschenoper, Die sieben Todsünden der Kleinbürger, Leben des Galilei, and Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui.  He chaired the Theatre Department at Tel Aviv University, founded, and chaired the Department of Theatre at University of Haifa, was visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and taught at Beit Zvi School of Drama, The Kibbutzim College and Sapir, as well as Columbia University, University of Delaware, South Illinois University at Carbondale, The Free University at Berlin, and more. Oz published numerous books and articles on Shakespeare, Marlowe, Political Theatre and Hebrew drama, presented programs on TV and Radio, and is the general editor of the project of Hebrew edition of Shakespeare plays, supported by the Israeli Ministry of Culture.

Oz studied directing under Professor Peter Frye, and then worked with various directors worldwide. He served as associate artistic director at the Cameri Theatre, dramaturg at the Haifa Municipal Theatre and artistic director of the Haifa University Theatre. Among the productions he directed are Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes/Mountain Language (2013, 2021), Good by C. P. Taylor, The Merchant of Venice, Landscape by Pinter, and his own play, Glorious Mountain, about the origins of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict in 19^th  century Palestine. In 2023 he will direct his play Pipes, about the first political Assassination in Palestine.