Doron Tavori

Doron Tavori was born in 1952 in Haifa

Doron Tavori was born in Haifa on July 2, 1952. From age 11 he moved around Israel with his parents, and as a child he wrote a children's book, "Stories for Sharon," named for his sister. He graduated from the Alliance school in Tel Aviv, where he acted in the drama club.

He served in the Artillery Corps entertainment troupe and later in an artillery entertainment team. After the army he took a short acting course at the Drama Studio in London and then studied privately in England.

He returned to Israel in 1974 and joined the new Beersheba Theater, first as an assistant director and props worker and then as an actor. After 7 years there he moved to the Haifa Municipal Theater, where he played Otto Weininger in Joshua Sobol's "Soul of a Jew" and the SS officer Kittel in Sobol's "Ghetto." He also performed A.B. Yehoshua's "Mr. Mani" as a one-man show there.

In 1984 he played Lucky in an Arabic-language "Waiting for Godot" directed by Ilan Ronen. He taught acting to a youth group in Umm al-Fahm from 1986 to 1991, and he left the Haifa theater in 1989 after Sobol and Gedalia Besser resigned its artistic leadership.

In 1994 he staged all 3 plays of Aeschylus's Oresteia as a solo show in homes and cafes. He translated 4 plays by Carl Sternheim and led their staging at the Habima Theater in 1998.