Motti Lerner

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Motti Lerner

Playwright and screenwriter; born in Israel in 1949, teaches playwriting at the Kibbutz College in Tel Aviv. Most of his plays and films deal with political issues. Theatre: Kastner; Pangs of the Messiah, Paula, Poll, all produced by the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv; Exile in Jerusalem, and Passing The Love of Women at Habima National Theatre; Autumn at the Beit Lessin Theatre, Tel Aviv; Hard Love at the Municipal Theatre in Haifa; and The Hastening of The End in the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem. His play The Murder of Isaac was produced at Heilbron Theatre in Germany (1999) in Centerstage Theatre in Baltimore (2006); and at Tel Aviv University Theatre (2013); Benedictus was produced by Golden Thread Theatre in San Francisaco (2007) and Theater J (2009); In the Dark by Chingari Theatre in Delhi (2011); Paulus by Silk Road Rising theater in Chicago (2013); and The Admission in Theater J in Washington DC (2014). Film & Television: Loves in Betania; The Kastner Trial; Bus Number 300; Egoz; the 12 episodes of the TV drama series The Institute; A Battle in Jerusalem; The Silence of the Sirens; Altalena; Spring 1941 and Kapo in Jerusalem. Awards: recipient of the Best Play Award (1985); and the Israeli Motion Picture Academy award for the best TV drama in 1995 and in 2004. He won the Prime Minister’s of Israel Award for his creative work (1994) and the Landau prize for the performing arts (2014). His plays have been produced in the US; Germany; Switzerland; Italy; Austria; South Africa; Australia; Canada and India. Books:According To Chekhov (2011) and The Playwright’s Purpose (2015). He taught playwriting at Duke University, North Carolina 1997; Knox College, Illinois 2005, 2007, 2012, and was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2010. His new play After The War will open in Mosaic Theater Company in DC in March 2016.