Yehezkel Lazarov

Yehezkel Lazarov was born in 1974 in Tel Aviv

Yehezkel Lazarov was born on February 8, 1974, in Tel Aviv. He grew up in a traditional Jewish family with roots in Bukhara and Bulgaria. From the age of 8 he performed as a tap dancer in musicals and on television.

He finished the Thelma Yellin arts high school as a ballet dancer and then sang in the Air Force band. In 1993 he joined the Batsheva Dance Company, where he danced for 4 years. He later studied theater at the Actors' Centre in London.

He acted at the Gesher and Cameri theaters and worked there as choreographer. His film breakthrough came in 1997 with The Dybbuk. He appeared in films such as The Debt, Waltz with Bashir and The Kindergarten Teacher, and in series in Israel and Russia.

As a director he staged works at Gesher and Habima and the opera Orfeo ed Euridice at the Israeli Opera in 2024. He founded the art venue AZA13 in Tel Aviv and a school for creative thinking. In 2022 he was chosen to head the School of Performing Arts at the Kibbutzim Seminary College.