Ealeal Semel

Ealeal Semel (born 1990) is a promising young theatre director from Israel. She holds a B.F.A and an M.F.A in theatre directing from the Tel Aviv University. Her latest production “Someone Like Me” by Roy Chen in the acclaimed Gesher Theatre (premiere: Jan 2020), is a new Israeli drama that chronicles the lives of 5 teenage patients in an Adolescent Psychiatric Institution as they put on their very own theatre play.

In 2017 she directed “Murder” by Hanoch Levin, a poetic exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to great success in Israel and internationally (Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania; Danail Chirpansky Festival, Bulgaria; Teatralny Kufar Festival, Belarus).

Semel is a speaker and activist of the third generation. She is the granddaughter of holocaust survivors, and the daughter of the late author Nava Semel, a pioneering voice for second generation in Israel and worldwide.

Other notable productions: (2020) “The Chalk Circle” after Bertolt Brecht, The Goodman Acting School of the Negev; “The Dybbuk”, after S. Ansky, Tel Aviv University Theatre. (2018) “Waiting for Godot”, associate director, Jaffa Theatre; (2015) “Schuster” by Hanoch Levin, Young Artist Week, Mozarteum Academy of Theatre, Salzburg, Austria. “Camp Herzl”, actress and contributor, Tel-Aviv University Theatre and the Mozarteum Thomas Bernhard Institute in Salzburg, dir. Christine Umpfenbach.