Anat Gov

Anat Gov was an Israeli playwright and screenwriter, known for plays such as Happy End.

1953 to 2012The play Happy EndPlays for the Cameri TheaterWriting for Zehu Ze!

Born: 13 December 1953, Tiberias
Died: 9 December 2012, Tel Aviv
Occupation: playwright, screenwriter
Education: Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts

Anat Gov was born in 1953 in Tiberias

Anat Gov was born in Tiberias, and her family moved to Tel Aviv when she was 3. She studied theater at Thelma Yellin High School of Arts.

She served in an IDF entertainment troupe, where she met her future husband, Gidi Gov. She later studied theater at Tel Aviv University and acted for a short time on stage.

Gov wrote for television, including the satire show Zehu Ze!, and created the comedy series Ken Ma?! in 1988. Her first play, Ahavat Mavet, was written in 1991. The Cameri Theater staged several of her plays, among them Best Friends, Oh God and Happy End.

She also translated plays into Hebrew, such as Mother Courage and Her Children and Via Dolorosa. Happy End, her last play, deals with a woman facing cancer and drew on her own illness.

Gov was married to Gidi Gov from 1977, and they had 3 children. She spoke openly about her cancer and died of it in Tel Aviv in 2012. She was buried in Kfar Saba.