Yevgeny Arye (or Yevgeni, russian: Евгений Арье, he, יבגני אריה, 28 November 1947 – 19 January 2022) was an Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer.

Career

In the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, Aryeh was a veteran theater and television director. Aryeh was the theater director for the

Gesher Theater Gesher Theater is an Israeli theater company founded in 1991 in Tel Aviv by new immigrants from Russia. Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy, by Natan Sharansky, 2008, pp 139ff. History Gesher Theatre was founded ...

, in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

, 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 Isaac Bashevis Singer ( yi, יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born American Jewish writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help ...

'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 ''

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'' to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. In 2009, he was a winner of the

Yuri Shtern Yuri Stern ( he, יורי שטרן, russian: Юрий Штерн, Yuriy Shtern, 29 March 1949 – 16 January 2007) was a Russian-Israeli politician and journalist. He was a member of the Knesset from 1996 until his death, first as a member of Yisr ...

Prize for New Immigrant Artists, awarded by Israeli Absorption Minister, then Eli Aflalo. That same year, Yevgeny Arye won the prestigious

Stanislavski Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski ( Alekseyev; russian: Константин Сергеевич Станиславский, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin sʲɪrˈgʲejɪvʲɪtɕ stənʲɪˈslafskʲɪj; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Soviet Russian th ...

international prize for theatre in Russia for his production of

's story, '' Enemies, a Love Story''

Personal life and death

Aryeh fell ill in November 2021. He died during an operation in a clinic in New York City, on 19 January 2022, at the age of 74. He was buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Putnam Valley three days later.Yevgeny Arye obituary
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References

External links

Worldcat entry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aryeh, Yevgeny 1947 births 2022 deaths Writers from Moscow Israeli writers Israeli theatre directors Set decorators Israeli male dramatists and playwrights Soviet theatre directors Jewish theatre directors Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent Soviet emigrants to Israel Burials in New York (state)