Nationality Israeli Name Yevgeny Aryeh | Role Theater Director | |
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Occupation Theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer Known for Theater director for the Gesher Theater Awards Stanislavski Prize for theatre | ||
Yevgeny Arye (also "Yevgeni", Russian: Евгений Арье, Hebrew: יבגני אריה, born 1947 in Moscow) is an Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer.
Career
In the Soviet Union, Aryeh was a veteran theater and television director.
Aryeh has been the theater director for the Gesher Theater, in Tel Aviv, Israel, and noted for his "special vision". Gesher was founded in 1991 by Russian immigrants headed by Aryeh.
In 2001, Aryeh was nominated for the Israel Theater Prize for playwright, for Satan in Moscow. In 2003, he received nominations as director, scriptwriter, and set designer for an Israeli Theater Award for the production of Isaac Bashevis Singer's love story The Slave.
In 2005, Aryeh was voted the 170th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
In 2009, he was a winner of the Yuri Shtern Prize for New Immigrant Artists, awarded by Israeli Absorption Minister, then Eli Aflalo. That same year, Yevgeny Arye won the prestigious Stanislavski international prize for theatre in Russia for his production of Isaac Bashevis Singer's story, Enemies, a Love Story