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Roee Joseph (born July 13, 1993) is an Israeli playwright and theater creator, recipient of the 2022 Golden Hedgehog Award for Best Play.

Roee is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies program at Bar-Ilan University and holds a degree in Theater Directing from the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology, and the Arts. Additionally, Roee is a graduate of the “Endpoint Residency” program (2021) and the “Starting Point 8” program for play development. His works belong to the genre of documentary theater, using 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:

• 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)