Noam Meiri (Hebrew: .mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output
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Israeli theater artist, actor, director and a world-renowned acting
teacher. Meiri is a co-founder of the Tel Aviv Haguf Theater (Theater
of the Body) School and Stage for Physical theatre, inspired by the
method of Jacques Lecoq. Since 1999 he has resided as a professor of
Physical Theater in Folkwang University of the Arts at Essen,
Germany.Noam Meiri, born 1958, was raised in Ramat Gan. As a boy he
studied at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts with teachers
Suheil Haddad and Irit Wager, and at Bat-Dor Dance Company's School.
Having decided to combine theater and teaching, Meiri graduated with a
B.A from Tel Aviv University's Education School and Theater Department
(1980-1984). Following his graduation from Tel Aviv University Meiri
studied at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq
(1984-1986) and completed his education in the Alexander technique and
the Laban Movement Analysis method. He is an independent theater
artist, continuously seeking an original language, while teaching
physical theater and focusing on creating \ original work. In 1987
Meiri co-founded the theater troupe Faubourg Teatron, along with Rivi
Feldmesser-Yaron and Walter Anichoffer (Austria). The troupe performed
its play, Nashim BaPark (Women in the Park) at the Tzavta Theater in
Tel Aviv, as well as in the Israeli Fringe Theater Festival in Acco
and at the Comic Theater Festival in Salzburg, Austria. In 1988 he
co-created the cabaret HaMofa shel Rapunzel (Rapunzel's Show), with
Rivi Feldmesser-Yaron, Gal Friedman and Gail Hareven. The play was
performed at the Tzavta Theater and in numerous theaters and
festivals. In 1990 Meiri created the HaAchim Grim Mesparim (Grimm
Brothers Tell Tales) show, which was performed regularly at the Beit
Lessin Theater, with the musicians Tzvia Sharet and Gal Friedman.
Simultaneously he gained fame as a storyteller on TV, on the
Children's Channel.Over the years, Meiri has developed his unique
method of Physical Theater Storytelling. He used this method while
directing Shay Schwartz's play, Tzeh HaHutza, Yeled Ra (Out, Bad Boy!)
in 1992 for the Teatroneto Festival for One-Person Plays at Tel Aviv's
Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater. He performed at the same
festival in 1993 with the one-man play Momik, adapting David
Grossman's novel, directed by Daniella Michaeli. In 1994 Noam Meiri
and Yair Qedar started the theater troupe Yesh Lo Milim Mishelo (Words
of His Own). Meiri also directed and played in the show by the same
name composed of texts written by Gay Israeli writers, along with the
actors Itzik Cohen, Tzahi Grad and Hagai Ayad. The show was a
breakthrough for Israeli Gay theater and following the success it
gained in Israel, it was translated into English and performed at the
Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, and other festivals in Manchester,
London (1995), and later in New York and San Francisco. The
preparations for the trip to the Edinburgh Festival and the trip
itself, were the subject of Erez Laufer's documentary Edinburgh Lo
Mehaka (Don't Cry for Me, Edinburgh). During his Words of His Own tour
Meiri facilitated numerous Physical Theater Storytelling master
classes in London and New York acting schools, and became a world
renown Physical Theater and Storytelling teacher.In 1996-2001 Meiri
taught at the Performing Arts Studio founded by Yoram Leowenstein,
directing original productions with studio graduates, such as Good
Stuff, with the playwright Sigal Avin and the actors Yuval Segal,
Dorit Bar Or, Hila Goshen, Natti Ornan and others; Lovers' Stories,
with Sigal Avin, Gavriel Hadar, Tamar Michael, Oded Manster and
others; Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost with Yael Sharoni, Yuval
Berger, Yoav Yeffet and others. Following the performance of Love's
Labor's Lost at the Recklinhausen Festival in Germany, in 1999, Meiri
was invited to teach at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen,
Germany, where he resides today as a Physical Theater Professor.
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Israeli theater artist, actor, director and a world-renowned acting
teacher. Meiri is a co-founder of the Tel Aviv Haguf Theater (Theater
of the Body) School and Stage for Physical theatre, inspired by the
method of Jacques Lecoq. Since 1999 he has resided as a professor of
Physical Theater in Folkwang University of the Arts at Essen,
Germany.Noam Meiri, born 1958, was raised in Ramat Gan. As a boy he
studied at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts with teachers
Suheil Haddad and Irit Wager, and at Bat-Dor Dance Company's School.
Having decided to combine theater and teaching, Meiri graduated with a
B.A from Tel Aviv University's Education School and Theater Department
(1980-1984). Following his graduation from Tel Aviv University Meiri
studied at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq
(1984-1986) and completed his education in the Alexander technique and
the Laban Movement Analysis method. He is an independent theater
artist, continuously seeking an original language, while teaching
physical theater and focusing on creating \ original work. In 1987
Meiri co-founded the theater troupe Faubourg Teatron, along with Rivi
Feldmesser-Yaron and Walter Anichoffer (Austria). The troupe performed
its play, Nashim BaPark (Women in the Park) at the Tzavta Theater in
Tel Aviv, as well as in the Israeli Fringe Theater Festival in Acco
and at the Comic Theater Festival in Salzburg, Austria. In 1988 he
co-created the cabaret HaMofa shel Rapunzel (Rapunzel's Show), with
Rivi Feldmesser-Yaron, Gal Friedman and Gail Hareven. The play was
performed at the Tzavta Theater and in numerous theaters and
festivals. In 1990 Meiri created the HaAchim Grim Mesparim (Grimm
Brothers Tell Tales) show, which was performed regularly at the Beit
Lessin Theater, with the musicians Tzvia Sharet and Gal Friedman.
Simultaneously he gained fame as a storyteller on TV, on the
Children's Channel.Over the years, Meiri has developed his unique
method of Physical Theater Storytelling. He used this method while
directing Shay Schwartz's play, Tzeh HaHutza, Yeled Ra (Out, Bad Boy!)
in 1992 for the Teatroneto Festival for One-Person Plays at Tel Aviv's
Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater. He performed at the same
festival in 1993 with the one-man play Momik, adapting David
Grossman's novel, directed by Daniella Michaeli. In 1994 Noam Meiri
and Yair Qedar started the theater troupe Yesh Lo Milim Mishelo (Words
of His Own). Meiri also directed and played in the show by the same
name composed of texts written by Gay Israeli writers, along with the
actors Itzik Cohen, Tzahi Grad and Hagai Ayad. The show was a
breakthrough for Israeli Gay theater and following the success it
gained in Israel, it was translated into English and performed at the
Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, and other festivals in Manchester,
London (1995), and later in New York and San Francisco. The
preparations for the trip to the Edinburgh Festival and the trip
itself, were the subject of Erez Laufer's documentary Edinburgh Lo
Mehaka (Don't Cry for Me, Edinburgh). During his Words of His Own tour
Meiri facilitated numerous Physical Theater Storytelling master
classes in London and New York acting schools, and became a world
renown Physical Theater and Storytelling teacher.In 1996-2001 Meiri
taught at the Performing Arts Studio founded by Yoram Leowenstein,
directing original productions with studio graduates, such as Good
Stuff, with the playwright Sigal Avin and the actors Yuval Segal,
Dorit Bar Or, Hila Goshen, Natti Ornan and others; Lovers' Stories,
with Sigal Avin, Gavriel Hadar, Tamar Michael, Oded Manster and
others; Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost with Yael Sharoni, Yuval
Berger, Yoav Yeffet and others. Following the performance of Love's
Labor's Lost at the Recklinhausen Festival in Germany, in 1999, Meiri
was invited to teach at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen,
Germany, where he resides today as a Physical Theater Professor.
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