Ouriel Zohar

Ouriel Zohar was born in 1952 in Tel Yitzhak

Zohar was born in 1952 and grew up on Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak. As a young man he acted in theater shows on the kibbutz.

He studied theater and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, earning bachelor's and master's degrees. He later completed a doctorate on community theater at the University of Paris VIII, where he taught from 1980 to 1985.

His first professional production was staged in Tel Aviv in 1975 and 1976, and he began directing in Paris in 1978. In 1986 he founded the Technion theater, and he served as dramaturg at Habima and the Haifa Theatre. He took part in Jewish and Arab art projects and helped found the Al-Midan Theater in Haifa in 1994.

He has been a visiting professor at HEC Paris since 1995 and a full professor at the University of Paris VIII since 1997. He directed about 75 plays in Israel, Europe, Canada, Africa and Asia, and in 2006 founded his own theater company in Paris.