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Danielle Cohen Levy is a Tel Aviv-based director, writer, and performer. Cohen Levy creates within the independent theatre world as well as in Israeli repertory theatres.

She is the Artistic Director of the Theateronto Festival for solo performances, manages the acting preparatory program at Hakibbutzim Seminar, and teaches in the directing and actor-creator programs at Seminar. She is a member of the artistic committee of Tmu-na Theater. Cohen Levy is a co-founder of the WCS group. Her productions have been presented in Israel and internationally and have won awards. Danielle founded a homemade publishing house named “PostcardPlay,” distributing over 600 copies worldwide. She holds an M.F.A. with distinction from Tel Aviv University and a B.Ed. with distinction from the Seminar Hakibbutzim School of Performing Arts.

Notable works include: On the Way Home | Repeat Sign (Tmu-na Theater, 2023), Letter from the Old House (Jerusalem Cultural Season, Feelbeit, 2023), The Archivist (Itim Ensemble, Beit Ariella, 2022), My Big Sister Above All / Uzi Ben Canaan (HaKaron Theater, Haifa Children’s Theater Festival, 2021), Out of Space (collaboration with Namer Golan, Tmu-na Festival, 2019), The Advocate (Khan Theater, Jerusalem, 2018), The Mysterious Disappearance of M (International Tmu-na Festival, 2017), Jewish Circus (written by Danielle Cohen Levy and Roni Brodetsky, Haifa Theater, 2017), Why Does the Fish Cry? / Oded Burla (HaKaron Theater, Jerusalem International Children’s Theater Festival, 2016), Worst Case Scenario (collaboration with Namer Golan, Acre Festival, 2015), I Am a Woman Warrior (Beit Reuven Museum, Tel Aviv University Gallery, 2014), They Say She Will Start in July (Hazira, Jerusalem 2010)

Her play, The Advocate, won development grants for original playwriting from the National Lottery and Starting Point (2013), and premiered in April 2018 at the Jerusalem Khan Theatre under her direction.

Her joint work with Namer Golan, Worst Case Scenario (2015), was awarded the Unique Stage Language prize, Lighting Design prize, and Soundtrack Design prize at the Acco Festival for Alternative Theatre, as well as the Fringe Award (“Kipod Hazahav”) for Group Work. The work was presented at the Brighton Fringe Festival, England, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Estonia in 2019.

In 2018, Cohen Levy’s play They Say She Will Start in July, was selected as recommended for translation by Eurodram.

Her plays Naaman My Love (2022) and The Children of R Don’t Speak (2019) won development grants for original playwriting from Starting Point.