Yuval Rozman | |
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Born | 1984
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Yuval Rozman (born 1984) is an Israeli actor, playwright, director, and theatre director, living in France.
Rozman was born in 1984 in Tel Aviv [1] into a left-wing religious Jewish family. [2] He wrote his first play at the age of 18. [2] Yuval Rozman trained at the Tel Aviv Conservatory. He deserted the Israeli army during his military service while deployed in Gaza. [2] [3] His 2010 play, Cabaret Voltaire, featuring Palestinian actor Mohammad Bakri, received numerous awards in Israel. [4] He was opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu's policies and expressed this in his plays. [2] In 2012, he decided to leave Israel for France. [2]
His plays focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the issue of homosexuality, among other topics, but are not limited to these themes. In 2017, he presented Tunnel Boring Machine, [1] [5] a comedy exploring the journey of a Palestinian and an Israeli in the Gaza tunnels. [6] On 26 November 2019, he visited the Valenciennes hospital center to read his texts [7] and engage with patients. [8]
In 2018, he directed HATE with Lætitia Dosch. [9] [10] [11] In 2020, Yuval Rozman directed The Jewish Hour, a reflection on Jewish identity. [2] [12] The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the project, [13] but he still won the Impatience Prize. [14] [15] Regarding this play, he stated, "It was in France that I discovered I was Jewish". [16]
After the start of the Israel-Hamas war, a performance of The Jewish Hour was canceled following the 2023 Brussels shooting. Speaking about the war, Yuval Rozman said in the media: [17] "On one hand, of course, condemn Hamas, terrorism, and all its horrors directed not against the Israeli people, but against Jews, and at the same time, acknowledge that there is a responsibility of the Israeli government, that there is still an occupation, Israeli war crimes". In 2023, he presented a new play, Ahouvi, about the romantic relationship between an Israeli woman and a Frenchman. [18] [19] [20]
Yuval Rozman | |
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Born | 1984
![]() Tel Aviv ![]() |
Occupation |
Playwright
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Yuval Rozman (born 1984) is an Israeli actor, playwright, director, and theatre director, living in France.
Rozman was born in 1984 in Tel Aviv [1] into a left-wing religious Jewish family. [2] He wrote his first play at the age of 18. [2] Yuval Rozman trained at the Tel Aviv Conservatory. He deserted the Israeli army during his military service while deployed in Gaza. [2] [3] His 2010 play, Cabaret Voltaire, featuring Palestinian actor Mohammad Bakri, received numerous awards in Israel. [4] He was opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu's policies and expressed this in his plays. [2] In 2012, he decided to leave Israel for France. [2]
His plays focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the issue of homosexuality, among other topics, but are not limited to these themes. In 2017, he presented Tunnel Boring Machine, [1] [5] a comedy exploring the journey of a Palestinian and an Israeli in the Gaza tunnels. [6] On 26 November 2019, he visited the Valenciennes hospital center to read his texts [7] and engage with patients. [8]
In 2018, he directed HATE with Lætitia Dosch. [9] [10] [11] In 2020, Yuval Rozman directed The Jewish Hour, a reflection on Jewish identity. [2] [12] The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the project, [13] but he still won the Impatience Prize. [14] [15] Regarding this play, he stated, "It was in France that I discovered I was Jewish". [16]
After the start of the Israel-Hamas war, a performance of The Jewish Hour was canceled following the 2023 Brussels shooting. Speaking about the war, Yuval Rozman said in the media: [17] "On one hand, of course, condemn Hamas, terrorism, and all its horrors directed not against the Israeli people, but against Jews, and at the same time, acknowledge that there is a responsibility of the Israeli government, that there is still an occupation, Israeli war crimes". In 2023, he presented a new play, Ahouvi, about the romantic relationship between an Israeli woman and a Frenchman. [18] [19] [20]