Yevgeny Aryeh

Yevgeny Aryeh
Born
Евгений Михайлович Арье
Evgeniy Mikhaylovich Arye

(1947-11-28)28 November 1947
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
DiedJanuary 19, 2022 (aged 74)
New York City, U.S.
NationalityIsraeli
Occupation(s)Theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer
Known forTheater director for the Gesher Theater
AwardsStanislavski Prize for theatre

Yevgeny Arye (or Yevgeni, Russian: Евгений Арье, Hebrew: יבגני אריה, 28 November 1947 – 19 January 2022) was an Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer.[1]

Career

In the Soviet Union, Aryeh was a veteran theater and television director.[2]

Aryeh was the theater director for the Gesher Theater, in Tel Aviv, Israel, and noted for his "special vision".[1][3][4][5][6] Gesher was founded in 1991 by Russian immigrants headed by Aryeh.[6][7]

In 2001, Aryeh was nominated for the Israel Theater Prize for playwright, for Satan in Moscow.[8] 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.[9]

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.[10]

In 2009, he was a winner of the Yuri Shtern Prize for New Immigrant Artists, awarded by Israeli Absorption Minister, then Eli Aflalo.[11] 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 [12]

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.[13][14][15] He was buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Putnam Valley three days later.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b David Singer, Ruth R. Seldin (1997). American Jewish year book; Book 1997. VNR AG. p. 499. ISBN 9780874951110. Retrieved July 28, 2011. Yevgeny Aryeh.
  2. ^ Ira Iosebashvili (October 3, 2003). "Immigrant Troupe Comes Home". The Moscow Times. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  3. ^ Amanda Borsche (May 8, 2002). "News of the muse". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  4. ^ Greer Fay Cashman (February 23, 2005). "It sounds better in Yiddish". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  5. ^ Naomi Doudai (March 16, 2004). "Theater Review". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  6. ^ a b Walter Ruby (March 28, 2008). "'Momik' Lost In Translation?". The Jewish Week. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  7. ^ Colin Chambers (July 14, 2006). Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  8. ^ Helen Kaye (March 13, 2001). "News of the Muse". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  9. ^ Greer Fay Cashman (March 17, 2003). "Gesher's 'The Slave' nominated for 12 Israeli Theater awards". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  10. ^ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
  11. ^ "Immigrant artists get prizes". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  12. ^ short news Haaretz 27/10/2011
  13. ^ "Умер театральный режиссер Евгений Арье". www.mk.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  14. ^ Огромное горе. Умер бессменный руководитель театра "Гешер"
  15. ^ Cashman, Greer Fay (2022-01-20). "Celebrated Gesher Theater founder Yevgeny Aryeh dies". The Jerusalem Post.
  16. ^ Yevgeny Arye obituary