Film and televisionשושה גורן

Shosha Goren

Shosha Goren is an Israeli actress and playwright, known for her one-woman shows at the Bimat Kedem theater she co-founded in 1982.

born 1943Co-founding the Bimat Kedem theaterThe one-woman show Real WomenWriting and performing monologues

Born: 18 February 1943, Baghdad
Occupation: actor, stage actor
Education: Brooklyn College

Shosha Goren was born in 1943 in Baghdad

Shosha Goren was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1943. She came to Israel with her parents in 1951.

She served in the IDF as a navy officer and edited the newspaper Maarachot Yam. She later studied Hebrew literature and language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and taught at the Herzliya Gymnasium.

From the mid 1970s she lived in New York and taught Hebrew in high schools there. In 1978 she began a master's degree in acting at Brooklyn College.

After returning to Israel, she founded the Bimat Kedem theater in 1982 with her husband Yitzhak Gormezano Goren and playwright Rafael Aharon. Her one-woman show Real Women opened in 1983 and ran more than 1,000 times. She also acted in other theaters, in films such as Jellyfish in 2007, and on television.

She wrote 7 of her one-woman shows, short stories and the book 50 Stage Stories, published in 2022. In 2019 she received the Shacham Prize for lifetime achievement. She has 3 children.