Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Zadok
Zemach graduated with a BA in geology from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, then studied theater at Tel Aviv University, writing and direction
at the Kibbutzim College, and scriptwriting at the Sam Spiegel Film
and Television School. He works as performance manager for the Kibbutz Contemporary
Dance Company.
Zemach won the Bernstein Prize, 1999, for his play Cracks in
the Concrete which was staged by the Habima National Theater in 2007. His
second play, Screwed, was awarded a special prize at the Beit Lessin
Theater’s Open Stage Festival in 2007; it was staged in 2011 by the Toma
Caragiu Theater in Romania and in 2013 by the Haifa Theater, which also staged
a children’s play of his a year later. Zemach is currently writing a script for
a feature film. The Last Painting of Jacopo Massini, his first fiction book, was awarded the Ramat Gan Prize for Debut Literature (2015) and the Wiener Prize for Debut Fiction
(2015).