Yoram Gal (born January 7, 1952) is an international Israeli painter,
playwright, director, actor and theater, TV and cinema producer. His
first play was EVERYMAN (1978). He has been an actor and director and
a painter in the United States, China and more, with collectors of his
works in Canada, Australia, Europe and Israel.Yoram Gal was born in
Jerusalem, son of Ephraim Roytenberg - Fima - a Jewish painter born in
Harbin, China, and emigrated to Israel in 1949, and Naomi Margalit,
born in Jerusalem, a teacher and economist. His parents divorced when
Gal was a year old. When he was six, his mother married Yossef Gal, an
economist, and the three moved to the center of Jerusalem. Three years
later, his sister Aya, psychologist, was born, and when he was 11 the
family moved to London, UK, where Yossef Gal represented the state of
Israel as the economic attache's in the embassy. Gal began painting at
age 12 when he underwent psychotherapy at the Anna Freud Clinic in
London. In painting, he found catharsis for his soul's storms, and at
age 15 he passed the A' Level exams in Art, which enabled him to enter
Art College. His teacher Mr. Rhymer advised against it, and told him
simply to paint and observe and self study works of masters like Van
Gogh and Botticelli. He excelled in Maths and Physics and graduated
from JFS - the Jewish high school, at age 17, returned to Israel and
joined the IDF Nahal unit, ending his three-year service as a
lieutenant. In Jerusalem, he worked in a photo store and exhibited his
first one-man show in Beit Mori. The leading Israeli newspaper Yediot
Ahronot published a favorable critique of the show, written by the
renowned critic Miriam Tal.In 1973 he served in the Sinai in the 1973
War, and then he studied Theater and Cinema at Tel Aviv University,
graduated with Honors BFA majoring in Theater, began writing a Ph.D.
on Jean Genet, and stopped, deciding to be an artist net. During his
student years he published short stories in newspapers. Upon
graduating from Tel Aviv University he began to write plays. His first
play "Everyman" was performed at the Tel Aviv University Theater,
directed by Prof. Edna Shavit, whom he married in 1978 and moved to
live in Old Jaffa. In the following years Gal wrote dozens of stage
plays, screenplays, short stories and novels. Among them about 15
plays for children and youth which were performed by his "Traveling
Theater". His plays were produced in fringe theaters like Tzavta,
Hasimta, Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, and Haifa’s
International Festival of children’s plays. During years Gal act
sporadically in TV and cinema films, Israeli, American and British,
directed some of his plays, designed sceneries for stage, painted and
sold his paintings in one man shows.
playwright, director, actor and theater, TV and cinema producer. His
first play was EVERYMAN (1978). He has been an actor and director and
a painter in the United States, China and more, with collectors of his
works in Canada, Australia, Europe and Israel.Yoram Gal was born in
Jerusalem, son of Ephraim Roytenberg - Fima - a Jewish painter born in
Harbin, China, and emigrated to Israel in 1949, and Naomi Margalit,
born in Jerusalem, a teacher and economist. His parents divorced when
Gal was a year old. When he was six, his mother married Yossef Gal, an
economist, and the three moved to the center of Jerusalem. Three years
later, his sister Aya, psychologist, was born, and when he was 11 the
family moved to London, UK, where Yossef Gal represented the state of
Israel as the economic attache's in the embassy. Gal began painting at
age 12 when he underwent psychotherapy at the Anna Freud Clinic in
London. In painting, he found catharsis for his soul's storms, and at
age 15 he passed the A' Level exams in Art, which enabled him to enter
Art College. His teacher Mr. Rhymer advised against it, and told him
simply to paint and observe and self study works of masters like Van
Gogh and Botticelli. He excelled in Maths and Physics and graduated
from JFS - the Jewish high school, at age 17, returned to Israel and
joined the IDF Nahal unit, ending his three-year service as a
lieutenant. In Jerusalem, he worked in a photo store and exhibited his
first one-man show in Beit Mori. The leading Israeli newspaper Yediot
Ahronot published a favorable critique of the show, written by the
renowned critic Miriam Tal.In 1973 he served in the Sinai in the 1973
War, and then he studied Theater and Cinema at Tel Aviv University,
graduated with Honors BFA majoring in Theater, began writing a Ph.D.
on Jean Genet, and stopped, deciding to be an artist net. During his
student years he published short stories in newspapers. Upon
graduating from Tel Aviv University he began to write plays. His first
play "Everyman" was performed at the Tel Aviv University Theater,
directed by Prof. Edna Shavit, whom he married in 1978 and moved to
live in Old Jaffa. In the following years Gal wrote dozens of stage
plays, screenplays, short stories and novels. Among them about 15
plays for children and youth which were performed by his "Traveling
Theater". His plays were produced in fringe theaters like Tzavta,
Hasimta, Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, and Haifa’s
International Festival of children’s plays. During years Gal act
sporadically in TV and cinema films, Israeli, American and British,
directed some of his plays, designed sceneries for stage, painted and
sold his paintings in one man shows.
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