Hanan Snir
Hanan Snir is one of Israel's most prominent directors. He was born in 1943 in Tel Aviv. For the last forty years he has been a professor for acting and psychodrama in Tel Aviv University, Seminar Hakibuzim College, The Hebrew University, The Open University and recently became the head of the psychodrama department in The Academic College of Society and the Arts.
He is a graduate of the theater arts department of Tel Aviv University and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He was a trainee director at the Royal Shakespeare Company under Peter Brook (1970) and directed at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London (1970–72).
He was a resident director at the Beer-Sheva Municipal Theater (1972–74) and was associate director at the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv (1977–82). Since 1984 he has been associate director at Ha’bima National Theatre, where he was artistic director from 1992–93. He received the Israeli Academy Prize for Best Production, Best Director, and Best Translator in 2007 for Sophocles’ Antigone, and won Best Play and Best Director in 2015 for Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s Our Class. Plays directed: Chekov's Uncle Vanya, The Siegel, Three Sisters, Strindberg/The Father, Lorca/Blood Wedding, Ibsen/Ghosts, Little Eyolf, Shakespeare/ Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Turgenev/ A Month in the Country, Sophocles/ Antigone, Oedipus, Electra, Bashevis Zinger/Yentel, Teibele and her Deamon. A. Ansky/ Dybuk. At the New Israeli Opera/Dido and Aenas by H.Purcell, The Turn of the Screw/ B. Britain. Snir's plays were performed in numerous theater festivals around the world, including: Japan, USA, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Taiwan, Venezuela, Romania, Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Cyprus.
Snir is a certified psychotherapist and holds a diploma in family therapy, psychodrama, and cognitive behavioral therapy, and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Boston University.
He has received numerous awards for his productions, most recently the Israeli Theater Life Achievement Award in 2015. In May 2017 he won Best Director and Best Playwright for his play To the End of the Land at the Israeli Theater Awards; the production also won Best Original Israeli Play and Best Actress in a Leading Role.
