Yevgeny Aryeh

Yevgeny Aryeh
Born Евгений Михайлович Арье
Evgeniy Mikhaylovich Arye
(1947-11-28) November 28, 1947
Moscow, USSR
Nationality Israeli
Occupation Theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer
Known for Theater director for the Gesher Theater
Awards Stanislavski Prize for theatre

Yevgeny Arye (also "Yevgeni", Russian: Евгений Арье, Hebrew: יבגני אריה‎, born 1947 in Moscow) is an Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer.[1]

Career

In the Soviet Union, Aryeh was a veteran theater and television director.[2]

Aryeh has been the theater director for the Gesher Theater, in Tel Aviv, Israel, and noted for his "special vision".[1][3][4][5][6] Gesher was founded in 1991 by Russian immigrants headed by Aryeh.[6][7]

In 2001, Aryeh was nominated for the Israel Theater Prize for playwright, for Satan in Moscow.[8] In 2003, he received nominations as director, scriptwriter, and set designer for an Israeli Theater Award for the production of Isaac Bashevis Singer's love story The Slave.[9]

In 2005, Aryeh was voted the 170th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[10]

In 2009, he was a winner of the Yuri Shtern Prize for New Immigrant Artists, awarded by Israeli Absorption Minister, then Eli Aflalo.[11] That same year, Yevgeny Arye won the prestigious Stanislavski international prize for theatre in Russia for his production of Isaac Bashevis Singer's story, Enemies, a Love Story [12]

References

  1. 1 2 David Singer, Ruth R. Seldin (1997). American Jewish year book; Book 1997. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ Ira Iosebashvili (October 3, 2003). "Immigrant Troupe Comes Home". The Moscow Times. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ Amanda Borsche (May 8, 2002). "News of the muse". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ Greer Fay Cashman (February 23, 2005). "It sounds better in Yiddish". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  5. ↑ Naomi Doudai (March 16, 2004). "Theater Review". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  6. 1 2 Walter Ruby (March 28, 2008). "‘Momik’ Lost In Translation?". The Jewish Week. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  7. ↑ Colin Chambers (July 14, 2006). Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  8. ↑ Helen Kaye (March 13, 2001). "News of the Muse". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  9. ↑ Greer Fay Cashman (March 17, 2003). "Gesher's 'The Slave' nominated for 12 Israeli Theater awards". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  10. ↑ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Immigrant artists get prizes". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  12. ↑ short news Haaretz 27/10/2011
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