Play market – The International Exposure of Israeli Theatre 2024

Play market

Introducing the Israeli Dramatists Website: Your Gateway to Original Israeli Drama.

We’re thrilled to introduce the Israeli Dramatists Website—a nonprofit initiative by the Hanoch Levin Institute of Israeli Drama, Kvutsat Avoda, and the Israeli Playwrights Guild. This site is bilingual (Hebrew and English) and showcases the works of over 175 Israeli playwrights with 500+ plays already cataloged. These works span everything from iconic cornerstones of Israeli drama to fresh premieres and even plays waiting for their first production. Whether you’re looking for works with specific themes, a particular cast size, or plays that have been translated into other languages, the site’s search engine will help you find the perfect piece.

To give you a closer look at what the site offers, we’ve created 12 short videos spotlighting some of the playwrights featured on the platform. We invite you to visit their pages, explore their works, and discover more voices shaping Israeli theater today.

Roy Chen

Roy Chen is a writer, playwright and translator. Since 2017 he is the in-house playwright of Gesher Theater in Tel-Aviv. His work was translated into English, Italian, German, Russian and Ukrainian. His plays are being produced abroad, lately: Anybody Here in Franco Parenti Theater, Milan, State of Affairs in Thalia Theater, Hamburg. The Dybbuk in Arlekin Players Theater, Boston.

Yaron Edelstein

Yaron Edelstein is a playwright and theatre director whose works have been performed in Israel, Germany, Finland, and Italy. His plays have been translated into multiple languages, including English, French, German, Italian, and Polish. His wild musical comedy, Ringo, has achieved cult status in Tel Aviv, boasting over 200 sold-out performances and counting.

Sharon Stark

Sharon Stark is an Israeli playwright, director, and actress. Her plays are generally performed in independent theaters, and they explore identity and modern paradoxes with sharp humor and surreal storytelling. Stark's work, translated into English and Georgian, invites audiences to reflect on role-playing and self-discovery.

Noam Gil

Noam Gil is a Playwright, Screenwriter, Director and Scholar. Recipient of the "Golden Porcupine" Best Playwright award. His plays, mostly comedies and political satires, were shown in various theaters in Israel. Gil has been hailed as one of "the most entertaining, profound and unique writers to emerge in Israeli drama" (Eitan Bloom, Haaretz).

Noa Lazar Keinan

Noa Lazar Keinan writes dramedies or melancholic comedies. Her plays have been performed in Israel, Germany, and Estonia. The play Bertod and Agnes has been translated into English and Estonian, while the play Short-circuit, written in the audience-interaction genre, has been translated into English and German.

Gadi Sedaka

Gadi Sedaka is a Samaritan-Israeli playwright, director, and actor. He is also the founder and manager of The Hebrew Theatre – a leading force in the Israeli cultural landscape. Sedaka wrote and directed many hugely successful theatre productions in Israel, including dramas, comedies, and musicals.

Elinor Milchan

Elinor Milchan is a multidisciplinary artist who merges photography and video installations into her theatrical storytelling. Her latest projects, 'Say My Name' and 'Untitled #194418', explore memory, death, and the traces we leave behind as we are being forgotten.

Roee Joseph

is an award-winning playwright and theater creator specializing in independent documentary theater. His plays, performed at prestigious platforms like the Israel Festival and the Sibiu Festival in Romania, explore personal and political realities. With a universal appeal, his works are open to adaptation and translation for audiences worldwide.

Sarah von Schwarze

Sarah von Schwarze born in 1968 in Munich. At young age, her parents converted and immigrated from Germany to Israel with their family. She is a mother of three daughters, actress, playwright, director, acting teacher, lecturer and workshop leader. Works at the Tel Aviv Cameri Theater and does independent productions in Israel and Germany.

Gur Koren

Gur Koren is The Inhouse playwright and the Dramaturg of the Cameri Theater, Tel Aviv since 2018. Winner of the Academy of Theater Award for “Playwright of the Year” 2014. Wrote the hit's: What's wrong with the world 2023, Don’t Fight 2019, Romeo And Mom 2018 (The Cameri Theater), The Actress 2016, The disabled 2014 (winner of Academy of Theater award for Comedy of the Year – (Beit Lessen Theater), Five Kilos of Sugar 2009 (Gesher Theater). His plays have been produced in Italy, Check Republic, Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia.

Hadas Kalderon

Hadas Kalderon is a playwright, director, and actress, and the Artistic Director of the Jewish Theater in Israel. Her plays, “The Witness” and “My Best Friend”, will premiere internationally in 2025. Her work, “The Paper Brigade”, based on her grandfather, poet Abraham Sutzkever, will be staged in a European collaboration.

Nadav Ruziewicz

Nadav Ruziewicz is a playwright and screenwriter, his poetic works draw inspiration from his Jewish roots and delve into themes of identity, memory, family, and extreme human conditions. His works have been featured in major theater festivals in Israel and gained international academic recognition. Several of his plays have been translated into English.