Tuvia Tenenbom

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Tuvia Tenenbom, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, is the Founding Artistic Director of the Jewish Theater of New York, a cutting-edge Jewish theater company and the only English-speaking Jewish theater in New York City. Tuvia's brand of theater was called the "most innovative Jewish theater in the world" by the Italian Corriere della Sera (on 12 January 2006), he was named "founder of a new form of Jewish theatre" by the French Le Monde (20 February 2002) and a "New Jew" by the Israeli Maariv ([3 February 2005). The German Die Zeit (2 January 2003) described Tenenboms play "The last virgin" as more desperately needed in Germany than suspected ^[1], The New York Times (October 27, 1997) called his work "irresistibly fascinating" and "bluntly satirical" (September 30, 2006].