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Roee Joseph (born July 13, 1993) is an Israeli playwright and theatre creator. He is the recipient of the Rosenblum Prize for the Performing Arts (2024) as a Promising Artist, and the Golden Hedgehog Award (2022) in the category of Playwright of the Year. He teaches directing at the School of Performing Arts, Seminar Hakibbutzim College, and at the Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio.

Joseph was born and raised in Ramat Gan and studied theatre at Blich High School. During his military service, he served in the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division—a recurring theme in his plays. He is a doctoral student in the Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University and a graduate of the Directing Program at the School of Performing Arts, Seminar Hakibbutzim College. He is also an alumnus of Nekudat Katze (End Point), a 2021 playwrights’ development program by The Nossor Theatre and Smartut Group, and Nekudat Pticha 8 (Opening Point 8) by Kvutsat Avoda.

Joseph’s works belong to the genre of documentary theatre, integrating ethnographic methods and autobiographical elements.

Original Plays:

• SHURA: The Mission of Identifying Life
  Israel Festival and Tmu-na Theater (2024)
  A documentary play about the process of identifying the victims after the October 7th massacre.
• Hereby I Declare
  Notzar Theater (2021)
  A post-documentary play (in collaboration with Noa Nassie).
  Awarded the 2022 Golden Hedgehog Award for Best Play.
  Featured at the FITS23 International Festival, Sibiu, Romania.
• Good Morning Hedgehog
  Tmu-na Theater (2019)
  A poetic documentary drama.

Directing Work:

• A Figure in a Moment of Time
  Ahad Ha’am Theater (2023)
  A stage story about the moon and questions, by Gal Chapski.

Performance Art:

• The Past Is No More
  Presented at HaBait Theater and at the “Loving Art. Making Art” Festival (2025)
  (Curated by Jason Danino Holt)
• May Memories Be a Blessing: A Ritual of Burning Objects
  Ha Bait Theater (2023)
  (In collaboration with Amir Eshed Liberman)
• Outing | Taking the Archive Out of the Closet
  Beit Ariela (2022) and Tmu-na Festival (2022)
  (In collaboration with Noa Nassie)
• To Die at Once
  Beit Romano (2021)
  (In collaboration with Yuval Vilner)