Daniel Horowitz, playwright, director and screenwriter, was born in Pardes Hanna, Israel, in 1941. He earned his BA in philosophy and Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his MA in theater studies from Tel Aviv University, where he was a lecturer. Since 1995 he teaches in the School of Theater Arts of the Kibbutzim College. He also works as a director in Italy. His plays have been produced in major theaters in Israel, as well as in the USA, italy, France and Germany. Among his awqrds: The Baratz Award for Awakening (1972), the Meskin Award for Cherli Ka-Cherli (1978), the Pinski Award for Yair (1992), the Prime Minister's Prize (1996) and first prize at The Acco Festival for An Amazing Deed (2000).
Books Published in Hebrew
TheLife Story of Yehezkel Fireman (play), Prosa, 1986 [Alilot Yehezkel Fireman]
Yair (play), Or Am, 1992 [Yair]
Cherli Ka-Cherli (play), Or Am, 1992 [Cherli-Kacherli]
Like Traoubled Bridge (non-fiction), Beit Berl College: The Center for the Study of Arab Society in Israel, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1993 [Kmo Gesher Takua: Sichot Im Ha-Sachkanim Mochamad Bakri, Salwa Nakkara-Haddad, Makram Khouri, Khawlah Hag Ve-Salim Daw]
Four Plays, Safra, Tel Aviv University, 2007 [Arba'a Machazot]
PERFORMED PLAYS
Brothers [Haifa, 1970]
Awakening [Cameri, 1971]
Breakdown and Bereavement (adap. from Brenner) [Haifa, 1973]
Graduation Party [Haifa, 1976]
Cherly Ka-Cherly [Khan, 1977]
A Terrible Deed (with Yaakov Raz) [Khan, 1978]
Uncle Arthur [Beit Lessin, 1981; in French: Festival Montmartre, Paris, 1992; in German: Gera Theatre, Germany]
Yossele Golem [Haifa-1982; in English: La Mama, New York]
The Chinese Knife Grinder [Neve Tzedek Theater, 1984]
Out [Neve Tzedek Theater, 1986]
Yehezkel Fireman [Khan, 1986]
His Wife and His Daughter [Haifa, 1991]
Yair [Haifa, 1992]
Salto Mortale [Haifa, 1994]
PLAYS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN ITALIAN
A Girl and a Bird [Flaiano Theatre, Rome, 1993]
Anton [Argot Theatre, Rome, 1996]
The Strange Miracle in Galatina (with Claudia Della Seta) [Colosseo Theatre, Rome, 1998]
Books in Translation
Uncle Arthur (play)
English: Tel Aviv, 1982
Italian: Florence, Giuntina, 1997
Breakdown and Bereavement (play, based on novel by Brenner)
English: Tel Aviv, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, 1979
Cherli Kacherli (play)
English: Tel Aviv, International Theatre Inst., Israel Center, 1978
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