Yoni Oppenheim is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company. He directs and dramaturges new and devised work. For 24/6, he directed a new Jewish adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Passover Plays, Sabbath Variations (LimmudPhilly), SHINSAI: Theaters for Japan; The Victims; adapted/directed A Doll House (The Tank); book and lyrics for Nittel Nacht. His work has been seen in the United States, Israel, and Norway. Translator: At Night’s End for acclaimed Israeli playwright Motti Lerner. Researcher: Posterity by Doug Wright (Atlantic Theater Company). Dramaturg: He Who Laughs by Ian Cohen (JCC Theaterworks), HAGGADAH… (Witness Relocation /LaMama). Yoni was the Theater Faculty for Brandeis University's BIMA High School Summer Arts Program 2013. He is a 2013 NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs SPARC (Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide) Grantee. During his 2012 SPARC Residency he created Home of the Brave: WWII Experiences in the Military and on the Homefront, based on oral histories of senior citizens at the Riverdale Y. Additional Directing credits: Evolutionism or Dammit We Took the Shortcut! (Manhattan Rep), Etta Sings for Change (Duplex), The Perfect Human 2009 (The 6th Obstruction) (14th Street Y), FAST and The Consistency of Flour (Drisha Institute/JCC); Yo Miss!... (LPAC); Crito and Na’im (The Lover) (S.E.E. Theater); Oleanna, The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in the Garden, and Swan Song (NYU Tisch) AD: Dog and Wolf (59E59); To Paint the Earth (NYMF/37Arts); Earthquake Chica (SPF/Theater Row) Contributing Artist: Knut er død: Hamsunjubileet 2008-10 (Teater NOR, Norway). He leads “Improv for Seniors” at the Riverdale Y. Yoni is a recipient of the John Dana Archbold Fellowship at the University of Oslo; Dorot Fellowship in Israel; and the Spielberg Fellowship in Jewish Theater Education. He is the associate editor of the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s catalogue “Plays of Jewish Interest” has written about the Origins of Jewish Theater and was the artistic consultant to both the Drisha Arts Fellowship and the inaugural JOFA Dinner/Exhibition “Putting Women Back in the Picture”. BFA Drama: NYU-Tisch/PHTS; M. Phil Ibsen Studies: U. Oslo. Member: Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.

Jewish Theater
Israeli Theater
Ibsen
Devised theater
New Plays
Directing
Translation

Yes

English, Hebrew