Roy Chen writer, playwright, translator, dramaturg

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Roy Chen, (born 1980, Tel-Aviv)

Since 2007, he is the house playwright of Gesher Theater (Jaffa), where his plays are staged, among them: Anybody Here, Floating Island, The Odyssey, The Tunnel.

His works were produced abroad, lately: Chi Come Me in Franco Parenti theater in Milan, Italy, and State of Affairs in Thalia theater in Hamburg, Germany.

Chen is the author of the novels Souls and Great uproar, published in Italian and Russian and are now being translated into English, German and Ukrainian.

Chen translated classic fiction novels and over 50 plays from Russian, French and English to Hebrew by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Kharms, Moliere, Anouilh, Robert Icke, Stephen King and in 2023 he published a new translation to Milne’s classic Winnie the Pooh.

Chen is the recipient of many awards including:
S.Y. Agnon Prize for Literature (2023)
Rosenblum Performing Arts Award by the city of Tel Aviv (2022)
The Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (2022)
Yitzhak Navon Ministry of Culture and Sports Award for the Preservation and Cultivation of Israeli Cultures. (2017)

Read more on:  https://www.roychen.net/eng

 

 

Plays
The Dropout Satire, Comedy Subject: Army | 2023   
Anybody Here Drama, Comic Drama, Comedy Subject: Human Soul, Youth, Love, Suicidality, Art, Survival, Friendship, Parent-Child Relationship, Illness, Crisis | 2020   
Alice Absurd, Psychological Drama | 2015 ➥he  
The Odyssey children Subject: Legend, Mythology | 2014 ➥he  
The Dybbuk Drama, Tragedy Subject: Death, Human Soul, Judaism, Love, Mysticism, Religion and Faith | 2014 ➥he | ➥English   
Floating Island Comic Drama, Periodical Drama, Poetic Drama, Fantasy Subject: Love, The Other, Friendship, Desires, Struggle, Death | | ➥en en   

* Temporary display of non-catalogued plays

Original Plays

Anybody Here, five teenagers creating a theater show in a psychiatric hospital.

Floating Island, two prisoners and one book in search of freedom.

The Dropout, a satirical Comedy about masculinity and the army.

The Tunnel, a political satire with two endings about “us and them”.

The  Dybbuk, based on the classic play by S.An-sky.

 

Plays for kids (and their parents):

The odyssey, inspired by Homer’s masterpiece.

The Treasure Under the Bridge, inspired by the tales of Nachman of Breslov.

Winnie the Pooh, based on Milne’s masterpiece.