{"id":3564,"date":"2014-08-16T02:55:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/playwright\/roeechen-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:23:58","slug":"roeechen","status":"publish","type":"playwright","link":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/playwright\/roeechen\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Roy Chen<\/b>, (born 1980, Tel-Aviv)<\/p>\n<p>Since 2007, he is the house playwright of Gesher Theater (Jaffa), where his plays are staged, among them: <strong>Anybody Here, Floating Island, The Odyssey, The Tunnel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Chen is the author of the novels <strong>Souls <\/strong>and <strong>Great uproar<\/strong>, published in Italian and Russian and are now being translated into English, German and Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p>Chen translated classic fiction novels and over 50 plays from Russian, French and English to Hebrew by <strong>Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Kharms, Moliere, Anouilh, Robert Icke, Stephen King<\/strong> and in 2023 he published a new translation to Milne\u2019s classic <strong>Winnie the Pooh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Chen is the recipient of many awards including:<br \/>\n<strong>S.Y. Agnon Prize for Literature<\/strong> (2023)<br \/>\n<strong>Rosenblum Performing Arts Award<\/strong> <strong>by the city of Tel Aviv<\/strong> (2022)<br \/>\n<strong>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works<\/strong> (2022)<br \/>\n<strong>Yitzhak Navon Ministry of Culture and Sports Award for the Preservation and Cultivation of Israeli Cultures.<\/strong> (2017)<\/p>\n<p>Read more on:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roychen.net\/eng\">https:\/\/www.roychen.net\/eng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/playwright\/roeechen\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/playwright\/3564"}],"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=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/playwright\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24222,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/playwright\/3564\/revisions\/24222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}