Yevgeny Aryeh Explained

Yevgeny Aryeh
Birth Name:Russian: Евгений Михайлович Арье
Evgeniy Mikhaylovich Arye
Birth Date:28 November 1947
Birth Place:Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Death Date:January 19, 2022 (aged 74)
Death Place:New York City, U.S.
Nationality:Israeli
Occupation:Theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer
Known For:Theater director for the Gesher Theater
Awards:Stanislavski Prize for theatre

Yevgeny Arye (or Yevgeni, Russian: Евгений Арье, Hebrew: יבגני אריה, 28 November 1947 – 19 January 2022) was an Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer.[1]

Career

In the Soviet Union, Aryeh was a veteran theater and television director.[2]

Aryeh was the theater director for the Gesher Theater, in Tel Aviv, Israel, and noted for his "special vision".[1] [3] [4] [5] [6] Gesher was founded in 1991 by Russian immigrants headed by Aryeh.[6] [7]

In 2001, Aryeh was nominated for the Israel Theater Prize for playwright, for Satan in Moscow.[8] In 2003, he received nominations as director, scriptwriter, and set designer for an Israeli Theater Award for the production of Isaac Bashevis Singer's love story The Slave.[9]

In 2005, Aryeh was voted the 170th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[10]

In 2009, he was a winner of the Yuri Shtern Prize for New Immigrant Artists, awarded by Israeli Absorption Minister, then Eli Aflalo.[11] That same year, Yevgeny Arye won the prestigious Stanislavski international prize for theatre in Russia for his production of Isaac Bashevis Singer's story, Enemies, a Love Story[12]

Personal life and death

Aryeh fell ill in November 2021. He died during an operation in a clinic in New York City, on 19 January 2022, at the age of 74.[13] [14] [15] He was buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Putnam Valley three days later.[16]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: American Jewish year book; Book 1997 . registration . 499 . Yevgeny Aryeh. . VNR AG . 1997. David Singer, Ruth R. Seldin. 9780874951110 . July 28, 2011.
  2. News: Immigrant Troupe Comes Home . The Moscow Times . October 3, 2003. Ira Iosebashvili. July 28, 2011.
  3. News: News of the muse . https://web.archive.org/web/20121107133132/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/118359969.html?dids=118359969:118359969&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+08,+2002&author=Amanda+Borschel&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=News+of+the+muse&pqatl=google . dead . November 7, 2012 . The Jerusalem Post . May 8, 2002. Amanda Borsche . July 28, 2011.
  4. News: It sounds better in Yiddish . https://web.archive.org/web/20121107133143/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/797664831.html?dids=797664831:797664831&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+23,+2005&author=GREER+FAY+CASHMAN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=It+sounds+better+in+Yiddish&pqatl=google . dead . November 7, 2012 . The Jerusalem Post . February 23, 2005 . Greer Fay Cashman . July 28, 2011.
  5. News: Theater Review . https://web.archive.org/web/20121107133155/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/580674251.html?dids=580674251:580674251&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+16,+2004&author=Naomi+Doudai&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Theater+Review&pqatl=google . dead . November 7, 2012 . The Jerusalem Post . March 16, 2004 . Naomi Doudai . July 28, 2011.
  6. News: Walter Ruby . 'Momik' Lost In Translation? . The Jewish Week . March 28, 2008 . July 28, 2011.
  7. Book: Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre . July 14, 2006 . Colin Chambers . July 28, 2011.
  8. News: News of the Muse . https://archive.today/20121102122724/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-42681633.html . dead . November 2, 2012 . The Jerusalem Post . March 13, 2001 . Helen Kaye . July 28, 2011.
  9. News: Gesher's 'The Slave' nominated for 12 Israeli Theater awards . https://archive.today/20120712182504/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/320123441.html?dids=320123441:320123441&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+27,+2003&author=Greer+Fay+Cashman&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Gesher's+'The+Slave'+nominated+for+12+Israeli+Theater+awards&pqatl=google . dead . July 12, 2012 . Greer Fay Cashman. The Jerusalem Post . March 17, 2003 . July 29, 2011.
  10. News: הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור . Ynet. גיא בניוביץ' . June 20, 1995 . July 10, 2011.
  11. News: Immigrant artists get prizes . The Jerusalem Post . July 28, 2011.
  12. http://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/short/1.1532411 short news Haaretz 27/10/2011
  13. Web site: Умер театральный режиссер Евгений Арье. 2022-01-19. www.mk.ru. ru.
  14. https://www.9tv.co.il/item/38812 Огромное горе. Умер бессменный руководитель театра "Гешер"
  15. Web site: Cashman . Greer Fay . Celebrated Gesher Theater founder Yevgeny Aryeh dies . The Jerusalem Post. 2022-01-20 .
  16. https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/ny/merrick/yevgeny-arye-14049437 Yevgeny Arye obituary

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