Gesher Theatre – List of Awards
1993- The Meir Margalit Award for Best Show (“The Idiot”)
1994- The Rosenbloom Award for Best Director – Yvgeny Arye
1995- * The Rosenbloom Award for Best Actor – Israel Demidov
* The Israeli Academy Award (3 awards) for “Tartuffe”:
- Best Director - Yevgeny Arye
- Best Costume Designer– Anna Crushchova
- Best Lighting Designer – Bambi
1995- The Chairman of the Knesset Award for Enriching the Israeli Social Life by Contribution and Creation in the Cultural of Philosophical Fields.
1996- The Israeli Theatre Academy Awards (5 awards) for “Village”:
· Best Performance of the Year
· Best Director – Yvgeny Arye
· Best actor – Israel Demidov
· Best Lighting Designer – Bambi
1996- The Klachkin Award for best Actor – Israel Demidov
1996- The Igal Alon Award to the Gesher Theatre for Best Achievement
1997- The Israeli Theatre Academy Award (3 awards) for “City – Odessa Stories”:
· Best Set Designer –Alexander Lisiansky
· Promising Actor – Amnon Wolf
· Best Costume Designer – Anna Chrushchova
1997- The Meir Margalit Award for Best Achievement in Music for Theatre to - Avi Benjamin.
1997 Gesher Theatre , “Village”, and Israel Demidov were nominated by London Festival as Best Guest Production and Best Actor.
1998- The Israeli Theatre Academy Award (2 awards) for “Don Juan”:
· Promising Actress – Tamara Stern
· Promising Actor – Alexander Senderovich
1998- The Rosenbloom Award to:
· Yevgenya Dodina for her contribution to the theatre and special talent as an actress.
· Efrat Ben-Zur for her great talent and work as a young promising actress.
1999- The Gesher Theatre was given an award as “Best Quality Initiative”.
2000- The Israeli Theatre Academy Award (2 awards) for:
· Best Set Designer – Alexander Lisiansky – “The River”
· Best Choreographer – Marina Beltov – “Sea”
2000/2001 The Israeli Theatre Academy Award (6 awards) for musical “Devil in Moscow”:
· Best Composer – Avi Benjamin
· Best Set Designer - Alexander Lisiansky
· Best Costume Designer – Valentina Komolova
· Best Lighting Designer – Bambi
· Best Choreographer – Marina Beltov
· Promising Actress – Michal Vainberg
2001/2002 The Israeli Theatre Academy Award (2 awards) for “Midsummer night dream”:
· Best Director – Yevgeny Arye
· Best Actress - Yevgenya Dodina
2002/2003 The Israeli Theatre Academy Award (6 Awards) 5 for “The Slave” and 1 for “Threepenny Opera”:
· Play of the year – The Slave
· Best Director – Evgeny Arye
· Best Actress in leading role – Yevgenya Dodina
· Best Set
· Best Lighting – Avi Bueno Yona (Bambi)
· Promising Actress – Yeheskel Lazarov
2003/2004 The Israeli Theatre Academy Award for “Shosha”:
· Best Set – Evgeny Arye and Michael Kremenko
2004- The Klachkin Award for best Actress – Yevgenya Dodina
2005 The Israeli Theatre Academy Award for “Variations for Theatre and Orchestra”:
· Best entertainment show
· Best choreograph – Yeheskel Lazarov
2006- Honorary Ph.D. from Bar Ilan University for Gesher Theatre’s contribution to Israeli culture.
2006- Honorary Ph.D. from Weizmann Institute of Science to Yevgeny Arye, Gesher’s director and artistic director.
2007 The Israeli Theatre Academy Award for “Baron Munchausen”:
· Best Set –Michael Kremenko
2007- Israel Lions Award to Gesher Theatre and its Director General Ori Levi for his contribution to the development of the theatre and for a life work in the absorption of new immigrant artists and actors.
2007- Honorary award from Ruppin Academic Center to Gesher Theatre for “making the Israeli social-cultural experience accessible and well known around the world”.
2007- Theatroneto Award for “So it Happened”
Based on a book by Natalya Ginzburg.
· Best actress – Natasha Manor
