Eyal Weiser Playwright and director

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Born in Israel, 1975, Lives and works in Tel
Aviv.

Graduate MA and BA programs for theater writing and directing (Department
of Theater Arts/Tel Aviv University), Graduate “Beit-Zvi” School of
the preforming arts, Graduate directing course (Room Theater) and the
Performance Art Workshop (Performance Art Platform/Tel Aviv). Playwright and
director of “How’s the Beast?” (Israel Festival
2015), “Merchav” (Hezi Cohen Gallery, Amelie A. Wallace
Gallery, New York), “Nystagmus” (Münchner Volkstheater),
“This is the Land – The Zionist Creation Rejects’ Salon” (Winner of
Israeli 2013 Independent Theater Awards: Best stage language, The Master
Class Award – Radikal Jung Festival 2014), “Mein Jerusalem” (Winner
of Israeli 2012 Independent Theater Awards: Best Show and Best Director, The
Critics’ Choice Award – Radikal Jung Festival 2013), “Hokey-Pokey”,
“Ayeka?” and “Vetu Lo” (Best Fringe performance 2005 –
Ha’aretz Newspaper), Playwright of “Shufra” (Best Fringe performance
2007 – Time Out magazine). His productions perform monthly in Tmuna Theater,
also performed at the Volksbühne Theater (Berlin), THOC (Cyprus National
Theater), Vienna Volkstheater (Austria), Centrum Kultury Lublin (Six
Verbs Movement as a part of Konfrontacja Teatralne Festival, Poland) IATI
Theater (New York), Media Bureau (Philadelphia), ROXY Theater (Culturescapes
Festival, Basel), Tristan-Bates Theater (London), Beit Lessin Theater, ZOA
Theater (Tel-Aviv), Arab-Hebrew Theatre, Mandel Culture Center
(Jaffa), Haifa Theater, Giv’atayim Theater,
 Acre Theater Center, The Lab, Beit
Mazia (Jerusalem), The Shlomi Center for Alternative Theater and the
Israeli Center for Digital Art (Holon).

Recipient of the prestigious Rosenblum Prize for Performance Art –
2012, Recipient of the America Israel Culture Foundation writing scholarship
and the David Mercer and Josef Levi acting scholarship, worked as lector for
Habima Theater and as a culture journalist in several newspapers and magazines.
Today works as a moderator of acting and writing workshops.

See also




Plays

How’s the Beast? A-genre, New Writing | 2015 he | English   
Nystagmus A-genre, Performance | 2014   
This is The Land A-genre, Monodrama, Satire Subject: Art, Zionism | 2012 he | English   
Mein Jerusalem A-genre, Performance | 2011 | English   
Hokey-Pokey Absurd, Satire | 2010 he | English   
Ayeka? Musical, Satire Cabaret | 2008 he  
Smiley A-genre, Absurd, Black Comedy, Drama, Satire, Tragedy | 2007 he | English   
And Noting More A-genre, Absurd, Satire, Satire Cabaret, Sketches | 2005