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Season Sponsor Published by: Season Sponsor: Brooklyn Academy of Music Adam E. Max, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Suddenly Vice Chairman of the Board Katy Clark, President Joseph V. Melillo, The Cameri Theatre of Tel-Aviv Executive Producer Based on stories by Etgar Keret Directed by Zvi Sahar, PuppetCinema Adapted by Zvi Sahar and Oded Littman Dramaturgy by Oded Littman Set and costume design by Aya Zaiger Music by Gai Sherf Lighting design by Ofer Laufer DATES: DEC 6—9 at 7:30pm Season Sponsor: LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) RUN TIME: 1hr, no intermission Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Achelis and Bodman Foundation The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. #BAMNextWave BAM Fisher Suddenly NY Premiere Cast Based on stories by Etgar Keret Nadav Assulin In Hebrew with English titles Simcha Barbiro Yuval Segal Director Neta Plotnik Zvi Sahar, PuppetCinema Gony Paz, Puppeteer Ilya Kreines, Cinematographer Adaptation Dani Halifa, Cinematographer Zvi Sahar and Oded Littman Production manager Dramaturgy Nili Beeri Oded Littman Technical coordinator Set and Costume design/ Yoav Weiss Visual development Aya Zaiger Stage manager Idan Tamano Lighting design Ofer Laufer Lighting operator Yoav Gindi Music Gai Sherf Sound operator Naor Izsak Sound effects Kobe Shmueli Online video director/operator Ohad Levitan Puppet design Gili Kozin Ulmar Translation of the stories Yana Malishev Miriam Shlesinger Amira Pinkas Translation of the story “What, of this Puppetry director Goldfish, Would You Wish?” Gony Paz Nathan Englander Associate director Title editing Danny Levy Tami Rubin, Omer Strass Assistant director International tours PuppetCinema Yoel Rozenkier as is presenting arts Gal Canetti, Dalit Itai About Suddenly Suddenly development was supported A writer is sitting alone amid the heap by Asylum Small grant and Gettysburg of rubble that was once his room, his College Research and Development life. Suddenly, a knock on the door: Grant (for designer Eric Berninghausen). three despairing people come up to him in their search for solace and demand Suddenly was developed in part by the that he does what he has decided never Visiting Artist program of Israel Institute, to do again—tell a story. Left with no Washington, DC; the Clarice Smith choice, the writer takes them into his Performing Arts Center; and the Theater, narrative world, where he hopes they Dance, and Performance Studies and will understand the price he pays for the the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Stud- stories they want to hear. ies at the University of Maryland. With the following collaborators: Leslie Strongwater (Dramaturgy and Production), Eric Berninghausen (Designer), Mark Costello (Cinematog- rapher, lighting, and projection), Tyler Gunther (Puppet Designer), Chelsey McLaughlin (Puppeteer), and Nitsan Scharf (Puppeteer). With the support of the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York. The Cameri’s productions have won more than 120 awards, including the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement and Special Contribution to Society and the State of Who’s Israel. The theater received an honorary fellowship from Tel Aviv University for its singular contribution to Israeli culture, for its rich repertoire, and for nurturing excellence Who in all aspects of theatrical performance. The Cameri Theater is supported by the The Cameri Theatre of Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Municipality. The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, founded The North American Tour is made possible in 1944, is the largest theater in Israel, with support of Israel’s Office of Cultural staging up to 12 new productions annually Affairs in North America and Mifal Hapais. along with 20 productions in repertoire. The Cameri has produced some 500 productions Shmulik Ifrah, General Director on its stages, with more than 2,000 Omri Nitzan, Artistic Director performances every year. Ofer Shahal, Chairman of the Board Haviva Hadar, Deputy Director Finance The company includes 80 of Israel’s Sigal Cohen, Director International Relations finest actors, and its plays are directed by Department celebrated directors from Israel and abroad. The theater’s productions are performed in Flights five auditoriums as well as on tour. This is Signal Tours, Alex Morison not the first visit to BAM, and the Cameri Theatre has performed at leading theaters SHMULIK IFRAH and festivals worldwide, including the General Director, The Cameri Theatre Lincoln Center Festival in NY, Barbican in London, Hannover Expo, Washington Shmulik Ifrah, general director of the Shakespeare Festival at Kennedy Center, Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and a Gdansk Shakespeare Festival, National graduate of the Beit Zvi Performing Arts Center for the Performing Arts (The Egg) in School, is a trained actor, teacher, director, Beijing, and Moscow Theater of Nations, and independent producer. Ifrah was until and more than 100 international tours with recently the director general and artistic other productions. Forthcoming tours are director of the Be’er Sheva Municipal planned to Europe, North America, and Theater. Ifrah led a substantive change at Australia. the theater, the city, and the Negev Regional Council by transfer of budgets for socio- The Cameri’s yearly international theater cultural activities for the residents of Be’er festival recently included companies such Sheva and the Negev Regional Council. as the Berliner Ensemble (Robert Wilson’s Ifrah is also the founder and director of the The Threepenny Opera and Arturo Ui), the Be’er Sheva Children and Youth Theatre Volksbühne, the Schaubühne, Deutsches which is the first theater of its kind in the Theater (Berlin), National Theater of Negev. Its entire work is dedicated to the Norway, National Theater of the Czech expansion of cultural knowledge and activity Republic, the Public Theater, National for the benefit of the future generations of Theater of China, Shakespeare’s Globe, and the theater, in particular, and the city of more than 70 other theaters worldwide. Be’er Sheva and the Negev in general. Ifrah also founded and managed the Goodman The Creative Team School for Play in the Negev. This is the first drama school established in the Negev, and ETGAR KERET within a relatively short period of time, it has Author become one of the leading drama schools in Israel, with increasing numbers of graduates Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret’s and teachers among the best performing books have been published in more than professionals in Israel. Every year, there 40 languages. His writing has appeared in are nearly 20 graduates who successfully The New York Times, Le Monde, The New move on to stages in all active theaters, Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review, cinema, and television screens in Israel. and Zoetrope: All Story. Over 60 short movies have been based on his stories. OMRI NITZAN Keret resides in Tel Aviv and lectures at Artistic Director, The Cameri Theatre Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has received the Book Publishers Association’s Omri Nitzan is himself a prodigious Platinum Prize several times, the Prime director in both theater and opera. Nitzan Minister’s Prize (1996), the Ministry has accumulated many prizes for his of Culture’s Cinema Prize, the Jewish productions in classical and contemporary Quarterly Wingate Prize (UK, 2008), the St. drama. Among his many honors, he is a Petersburg Public Library’s Foreign Favorite five time winner of the Israel Theatre Prize Award (2010), and the Newman Prize for Director of the Year and five-time winner (2012). In 2007, Keret and Shira Geffen of the Israeli Theatre Prize for Production won the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or of the Year. Nitzan has directed operas for Award for their movie Jellyfish, and the Best the Israel Opera, in Antwerp, and in Tokyo, Director Award of the French Artists and as well as guest performances with Opera Writers’ Guild. In 2010, Keret was honored of Rome, Deutsches Opera Berlin, and the in France with the decoration of Chevalier de Opera Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany, l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Keret’s latest among others. book, The Seven Good Years, was chosen by The Guardian as one of the best biographies and memoirs of 2015. Keret was the winner of the 2016 Charles Bronfman Prize in recognition of his work imparting an inspiring Jewish humanitarian vision. ZVI SAHAR Director/Adaptation Zvi Sahar holds a BA (cum laude) from the department of theater at the University of Haifa (2010) and is also a graduate of the Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio (2006). He has won grants from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Jim Henson Foundation. Sahar attended Puppet Lab in New York (2011), where he developed the language of PuppetCinema, a theater stage language combining puppets and closed circuit video. He was a guest lecturer at the University Hazira Performance Art Arena. Alongside his of Maryland school of theater, dance, and work as a creator he gives various workshops performance studies (2016). He directed and courses for youth, students, and young the Hazira Performance Art Arena produc- creators, and also practices therapy. tion of The Road to Ein Harod (Salt of the Earth, 2014 Next Wave) in Berlin, Croatia, AYA ZAIGER and Poland; Planet Egg, a miniature puppet Set & Costume designer theater performance (Hong Kong National Festival, festivals in Denmark, Italy, Estonia, Aya Zaiger, artist and designer, specializes Czechoslovakia, and around the US); and in developing visual concepts as an art, set, Gulliver at Hazira Performance Art Arena and costume designer. Zaiger holds a BA in Jerusalem (premiere at the International (cum laude) in set and costume design from Festival of Puppet Theatre in Jerusalem, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, August 2017). and an MA in art studies from Bezalel As an actor Sahar has performed with Academy of Arts and Design.
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