For
a copy in Word® Format Click HerePresently dramaturg, translator, playwright,
literary critic, lecturer.
Education
1977-1982 Ph.D. in Drama,
Stanford University, California (Thesis in modern European drama. Major
in Directing and Criticism);
1972-1977 M.A. in English and American Literature, Tel Aviv University;
1968-1972 B.A. double major in English Literature and Philosophy;
Graduate of Nissan Nativ Actors’ Studio.
Experience- Theatre
1992-2000 Dramaturg, translator
& foreign relations, Gesher Theatre, Tel Aviv;
1991-1992 Literary consultant for the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv;
1989-1991 Artistic Director of the National Theatre for the Young;
1987-1990 Dramaturg & Literary Manager, Haifa Municipal Theatre
&
The Arab Stage; Artistic Director of Haifa International Youth Theatre
Festival;
1982 Assistant Artistic Director, Shakespeare Festival UCSC;
1972-2003, director of plays & literary adaptations for the stage.
Experience – Academic
Presently Lecturer in Translation
Studies, TA University Porter School of Cultural Studies;
Lecturer in English Drama, G. Washington College;
1981-1988 Lecturer at the University of Haifa in comparative drama (Dept
of Comparative Literature), English & American Drama (English Dept);
1984-1988 Lecturer in drama
& Acting at Tel Aviv University, Theatre Dept;
1979-1981 Directing & Acting teacher at Stanford University, Drama
Department; Acting teacher at UCSC, Theatre Arts Department; Lecturer
at Hayward University, California.
Plays
Women's Minyan,
co-author, (Habimah National Theatre 2002)
The Shit Path, a play (Finalist in the Mobil Playwriting
Competition, UK 1993); The First Stone, a play. Teatron-net
1993, Tel Aviv;
Literature
Without Premeditation,
poems. Eked 1977; “Like a Gift,” short story, Iton
77, 1977; “Flower beds,” short story,
Keshet 1975; Poems & other stories were published
in Keshet 1975, 1976, in Moznaim 1978,
in Yediot Aharonot 1974, & broadcast on National
Radio.
Dramaturgy & adaptations
Gesher Theatre : Intrigue
& Love, F. Schiller (1999); City- Odessa Stories,
I.Babel’s stories (1995); Dom Juan, Moliere (1997);
Village, J. Sobol, (1994); Tartuffe,
Moliere (1994); The Lower Depths (1993);
Haifa Theatre: The Jerusalem Syndrome, J. Sobol (1987);
A Cabal of Hypocrites, Bulgakov (1987); Freedom
of the City, B. Friel (1988); The Betrothal, Leone
di Sommi (1988); The Opsimist, E.
Habibi (Arab Stage 1987);
Play translations (from
English, French, Russian)
Dom Juan,
Moliere. Masterpiece Series, Zabam 2000
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by T. Stoppard,
(Gesher 1994); The Lower Depths, by M. Gorky, (Gesher
1993); House of Blue Leaves, by John Guare (Cameri
1992); Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Laclos/Hampton (Haifa
Theatre 1987); Too True to Be Good, G.B. Shaw (Actors’
Studio 1983); A Month In The Country, by Turgenev (Actors;
Studio 1975); Ecole de Veuves, by Jean Cocteau (1974);
L’Invasion , by A. Adamov (1974); Liens
de Sang, Ramon del val Inclan;
Literary Translations (from English
& French):
City of God,
E.L. Doctorow (Zabam 2002); Love, Again, by Doris Lessing
(Zabam 2001); Fish of the Inland Seto Sea, R. Pilgrim
(2003); Kafka’s Curse, by Ahmat Dangur, (Kineret,
2000); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Bernard de
Bernieres (Zmora-Bitan, 2000); The Taylor of Panama,
John Le Carre (Kineret 1997); Oscar and Lucinda, Peter
Carey (Zmora-Bitan, 1993); Les Vaisseaux du Coeur,
Benoite Groult (Bitan1993); The Secret Pilgrim, John
Le Carre (Kineret 1997); A Tale of Two Cities, Charles
Dickens (Zmora-Bitan 1989); The Member of the Wedding,
Carson McCullers (Keter 1985); Do With Me What You Will,
J.C. Oates (Zmora-Bitan 1980); Martha Quest, Doris
Lessing (Zmora-Bitan 1986); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, J.Verne
(Zmora 1985). And more.
Directing
A Land I Don’t
Remember, Maria Elena Walsh.( Mor Productions, TA 1986); You
And I And The Next War, H. Levin. (Actors’ Studio,TA
1985); Macbeth, W. Shakespeare. ( co-director, UCSC
Festival, USA 1982); Too True to Be Good, G.B. Shaw,
(Actors' Studio,TA 1983); The Silver Tassie, Sean O’Casey,
(Stanford, California 1980); Change the World, B. Brecht
Cabaret, (Stanford 1979); Dance of Death II, A. Strindberg
(Stanford, 1978); The Fight for Barbara, D.H. Lawrence
(Stanford, 1977); A Legend Of Three And Four, by H.N.
Bialik (Pelz Productions, TA 1976); The Music Box,
N. Alterman (National Theatre for the Young, TA 1976); Mature,Tired
and Forgiving, A. Shlonsky (National Theatre for the Young,
TA 1976); Ghost Inn, N. Alterman (Acting Studio, TA
1975); Opportunity Street, R. Dotan, (radio drama,
TA 1986); Catch 44, A. Sivan, (radio drama, TA 1986).
Publications-academic and other:
- Prague 2003, Jewish Culture
In Europe Seminar: "'The Jerusalem Syndrome': The climax of political
theatre in Israel."
- 2002 ISSEI, Aberystwyth: “Multi-cultural theatre in Israel,
a bridge or an illusion?”
- SCAENA, Cambridge 2001”A comparative Study of Leander Haussmann’s
'Romeo and Juliet' and his staging of Schiller’s 'Intrigue and
Love'”;
- Psi Conference Mainz, April 2001, “Staging the Holocaust”;
- “My Dramaturgy In A Bi-lingual Company,” Goethe Institute
Conference on Dramaturgy, Tel Aviv 1999;
- “Adapted unto death,” Theatre Magazine, Feb 2002;
- “The Russian Winnie the Pooh Roars,” (Iton 77, TA 1991);
“Chekhov’s Three Sisters in Israel and abroad,” (Iton
77, TA 1991); “They- or Imagining the Other”, Theatre Journal
1983; “The Cherry Orchard as a territorial rite of passage,”
(Hasifrut 1984); “Jenet’s The Balcony: A reversed ritual,”
(Dapim Lesifrut, Haifa 1983); “The Third Position: Israeli writers
of Arab origin,” (Iton 77, TA 1987); “Stanislavsky and Aristotle,”
Haifa University, (Dapim Lesifrut 1984), “The Wooden O,”
Haifa University Theatre & Film Conference (1985), “Macbeth,
the enigma of the last scene,” UCSC Shakespeare Festival Conference
(1982) .
- Since 1991 literary critic for Yediot Aharonot, Literary Supplement;
Awards:
The Valenrod Poetry Award,
1977; The Wizo Award for Translation 1997.
Languages:
Hebrew, English, French,
Romanian. Reading knowledge of Italian, German, Russian.
Married to Gabriel Wax, Architect. Mother of
Jonathan Wax, Software Architect.