פרופ' דוד זינדר

Date of birth:     March 27, 1942

Place of birth:    Jerusalem, Israel

Address:           89 Haim Levanon St

                         Tel Aviv 69345, ISRAEL                             

Phone:                + 972-3-641-0640 (home)

                                 (mobile)  972-54-768-0142 +                             

Email:                   dzinder@yahoo.com, zinder@tauex.tau.ac.il

 

 

Education
1976	PhD. summa cum laude, U.C. Berkeley. (PhD. dissertation published by UMI Ann Arbor, see under Publications.)
1966	B.A.Hons. Dept. of Drama, University of Manchester
Academic position
	As of October 1st, 2005  Professor Emeritus
	As of July 2003, Full Professor at Tel Aviv University.
	1976 - 2004 - Teacher of acting and directing at TAU. 2003- 2018 - Vice President for Academic Affairs, The Neri Bloomfield College for Desing and Edcation, Haifa, Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Experience:

Directing:

2019 - Poema de Sangre, my adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding, (in Spanish), at the Festival d'Otonio (Autumn Festival) Madrid (Nov. 15-17) 

2018 - Attempts on her Life, by Martin Crimp, at the International Theatre Institute (ITI), Singapore. 

2017 - Dybbuk, my adaptation of S. An-sky's The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (in Hindi), at the National School of Drama (NSD), Dehi, India.

2015 - Hedda? My adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Zurich Academy of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland. 

2012 - Song of Blood, my adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding, Samahaara Theatre Company, Hyderabad, India

2010 - Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello, at the Tompa Miklos Theatre, Targu Mures, Romania.

2008 - Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen, at the Hungarian national Theatre of Cluj, Romania.

2006 - the Love of Don Perlimplin for Belissa in the Garde, by Federic Garcia Lorca, CalRep company, Long Berach California, USA.

        - Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, at the Tamasi Aron Theatre, Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania.

2004 - the Inspector After Magritte, a double-bill of plays by Tom Stoppard, at the Hungarian national Theatre of Cluj, Romania.

2004 (Oct.-Dec.) –The Bacchae, an original adaptation of Euripedes' play at the Hungarian National Theatre of Cluj, Rumania

2003 - The Inspector After Magritte, double bill of plays by Tom Stoppard, at the Hungarian National Theatre, Cluj, Rumania.

         - Song of Blood, 4^th version of my adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, at Tel Aviv University.

         - Right You Are! (If you think so), by Luigi Pirandello, Tel Aviv University.

2002 – The Dybbuk, at the Hungarian State Theatre, Cluj, Rumania (Nominated for Best Performance of 2002 by UNITER, the Rumanian                         Theatre Union; Best Actress of 2002 Award for lead actress Imola Kezdi.)

2001 - Blood Will Have Blood – adaptation of Macbeth, at Tel Aviv University.

1999 – Poeme du sang, 3^rd version of my adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, at the Conservatoire de l’art dramatique, Liege,                Belgium.

1998 – HAMLETDREAMING – an adaptation of Hamlet, at Tel Aviv niversity. 

1996 - Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, at Tel Aviv University. A performance 

         – Blodetsang, 2^nd version of my adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, at International Michael Chekhov School, Aarhus                    Denmark.

          - KASPAR, by Peter Handke, at Tel Aviv University and the International StudentTheatre Festival, Brno, Czech Republic. (Winner of                          Festival  Prize for Best Acting)

1995 - Song Of Blood, original adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, at Tel Aviv University.

1994 - The Inn Of Spirits by Nathan Alterman, at Tel Aviv University. 

1992 - Hinkeman, by Ernst Toller, at Tel Aviv University (Israeli premiere)

1991 - The Real Inspector Hound & After Magritte, by Tom Stoppard, at Tel Aviv University (Israeli premiere)

          - The Way of the World, by William Congreve, at Tel |Aviv University (Israeli premiere)

1990 - “COC-TAIL”, a double-bill including: Desire Caught By The Tail, by Pablo Picasso, The Eiffel Tower Wedding by Jean Cocteau (both                        Israeli premieres), performed at Cocteau Centennial Festival, Tel Aviv University. .

1989 - Everyman, Anonymous, adaptation by Aryeh Sachs, at Tel Aviv University 

        -The Suitcase Packers by Hanoch Levin, Tel Aviv University 

        - Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, Tel |Aviv University 

1988 - Tonight We Improvise by Luigi Pirandello, at Tel Aviv University.

        - The Moment Before by Israel Eliraz, at the Akko Fringe Theatre Festival.

1987 - Three Loves, a one-woman show based on a short story by Amalia Cahana Carmon (“Ne’ima Sasson Writes Poetry”) and a theatrical                       monologue by Yehoshua Sobol. Guest performance at the Akko FringeTheatre Festival.

         - House Of Bones, by Roland Dubillard (Israeli premiere), Tel Aviv University.

1986 - Shop, by Hillel Mittelpunkt, at Berkeley Jewish Theatre, Berkeley, California.

        - Game And Mask, improvisation performance, at the Negev Theatre (over 200 performances ‘86-’88).

1985 - A Month In The Country, by Turgenyev, at U.C. Berkeley

         - The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, at The Kibbutz Seminary, Tel Aviv, Israel.

1984 - Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, at Tel Aviv University. 

1984-85 - Give And Take, Improvisation show with the Neveh Tzedek Theatre Group (over 150 performances ‘85-’88).

1984 - Story Games, Improvisation performance based on fairy tales with the Theatre for Children and Youth (over 100 performances).

1982 - Theatre Games, Improvisation performance with the Theatre for Children and Youth (Over 150 performances).

        - Ubu Roi, by Alfred Jarry, at Tel Aviv University.

        - Theatre II, by Samuel Beckett, at Tel |Aviv University.

1979 - Genesis, experimental work based on the Book of Genesis, at the Habima National Theatre.

1978 - Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard, at the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem. (Israeli premiere)

        - Victor, by Roger Vitrac. At Tel Aviv University. 

1977-80 - Theatre Games, improvisation performance with the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem (over 400 performances ‘77-’80).

1976 - The Breasts Of Tiresias, by Guillaume Apollinaire, at Tel Aviv University (Israeli premiere).

 

• The Surrealist Connection - Towards an Aesthetic of Surrealist Theatre, UMI, Ann Arbor, 1980. (PhD. dissertation, chosen by UMI for publication in its Avant-Garde Series.
• Body Voice Imagination: A Training for the Actor, Routledge, NY, July, 2002.
• Body Voice Imagination: Imagework Training and ther Chekhov Technique, 2nd Edition, Routledge, New York, 2009

• Collected Adaptations, an anthology of all the theatre adaptations I have created over the years.
• Dreamwork - A Training for Conceptual Directors

• Wealth in Poverty - Theatre in Russia, 1981/ Bamah Theatre Quarterly, Summer 1981.
• Coc-Tail - On the production of Desire Caught by the Tail by Pablo Picasso and The Eiffel Tower Wedding, by Jean Cocteau, at TAU, Assaf Theatre Quarterly, Spring 1990.
• White fire/Black Fire: On the production of an Israeli version of The Dybbuk by S. An-sky, at the Hungarian National Theatre of Cluj, Romania; in Teatron, the Israeli theatre journal, Volume 10, 2003.
• The Actor Imagines with His Body, Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 17, Issue 1.7.2007
• Classical Dreams - Adaptations of Classics, The IATC Webjournal/Revue de Web, Autumn 2010, Issue No. 3, Critical Stages.
• Chekhov the Director: Receating the Puzzle, Theatre, Dance and Perfromance Training, Vol. 4(2) 2013.

Videos

• White Fire/Black Fire (The Dybbuk), video recording of my production at the Hungarian National Theatre of Cluj, Romania (2002), in Hungarian, with English subtitles. YouTube
• Poema de Sangre, video recording of my production of Lorca's Blood Wedding, at the Festival d'Otonio, Madrid (2018), in Spanish with English subtitles. YouTube
• HEDDA? video recroding of my production of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler ath ethe Zurich Academy of the Arts, (2015), in German with English subtitles. YouTube