Yevgeny Arye (orYevgeni, Russian: Евгений Арье, Hebrew: יבגני אריה, 28 November 1947 – 19 January 2022) was an Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer.[1]
Yevgeny Aryeh
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Born |
Евгений Михайлович Арье (1947-11-28)28 November 1947 |
Died | January 19, 2022 (aged 74)
New York City, U.S.
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Nationality | Israeli |
Occupation(s) | Theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer |
Known for | Theater director for the Gesher Theater |
Awards | Stanislavski Prize for theatre |
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]
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]
Yevgeny Aryeh.