{"id":23932,"date":"2025-04-15T18:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/playwright\/%d7%a7%d7%a8%d7%9f-%d7%9b%d7%94%d7%9f-%d7%99%d7%a9%d7%a8%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%99\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:27:06","slug":"%d7%a7%d7%a8%d7%9f-%d7%9b%d7%94%d7%9f-%d7%99%d7%a9%d7%a8%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%99","status":"publish","type":"playwright","link":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/playwright\/%d7%a7%d7%a8%d7%9f-%d7%9b%d7%94%d7%9f-%d7%99%d7%a9%d7%a8%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Keren Cohen Israeli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Education:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bachelor&#8217;s Degree (B.A.) in Directing with specialization in Community Theater (1998-2001)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Master&#8217;s Degree (M.F.A.) with honors in Theater Arts, Directing track (2007-2010) &#8211; Tel Aviv University<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Professional Experience:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Founder and CEO of Platform Theater \u2013 An activist theater promoting trauma and violence survivors and a training program for stage professions (2015-present)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keren is a playwright and writing instructor in the professional training program<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writes all productions from Platform Theater, both testimonial plays performed throughout Israel and productions for repertory theaters (Habima, Cameri)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Has created and written 9 plays in the theater&#8217;s repertoire (from 2015-2025)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Focus and Experience:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specializes in writing plays inspired by personal life stories<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professional experience includes:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instructor in the Theater Department (Community Track) at Tel Aviv University for both undergraduate and graduate programs (10 years)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creator in community theater (25 years), particularly in prison theater (17 years)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Playwright in professional and repertory theater (15 years)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently developing an original dramatic television series based on true events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education: Bachelor&#8217;s Degree (B.A.) in Directing with specialization in Community Theater (1998-2001) Master&#8217;s Degree (M.F.A.) with honors in Theater Arts, Directing track (2007-2010) &#8211; Tel Aviv University Professional Experience: Founder and CEO of Platform Theater \u2013 An activist theater promoting trauma and violence survivors and a training program for stage professions (2015-present) Keren is a&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/playwright\/%d7%a7%d7%a8%d7%9f-%d7%9b%d7%94%d7%9f-%d7%99%d7%a9%d7%a8%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%99\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/playwright\/23932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/playwright"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/playwright"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/playwright\/23932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23933,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/playwright\/23932\/revisions\/23933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}