Professor Gad Kaynar is the outgoing Chair of the Theatre Arts Department, Tel Aviv University, and head of the Directing and Dramaturgy Studies; Guest Professor at the Jerusalem Hebrew University, Munich LMU University, and Venice International University. Recent book publications: Another View: Israeli Drama Revisited. with Prof. Zahava Caspi (The Ben Gurion University Publication, 2013); The Cameri Theatre of Tel-Aviv (2008). His book The Reality Convention in Hebrew Theatre is due to appear in Hebrew (Safra Publications, 2015), and German Dramaturgy at the Turn of the Millenium is due in 2016 in the Forum Modernes Theater series. Chapters in The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy (2014) and New Dramaturgies: International Perspectives (Methuen 2014). Kaynar is the former dramaturg (1982–2005) of The Israeli National Theatre Habima, The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, The Khan Theatre in Jerusalem, as well as curator of numerous festivals in Israel and abroad; co-editor of the quarterly Teatron; a poet, actor, director and translator. For his Ibsen translations and research, he has been appointed (2008) “Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit” by King Harald V of Norway.

development of new plays, production dramaturgy,translation, educational dramaturgy

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English, Hebrew, German, Norwegian (reading only)