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1 CURRICULUM VITAE December, 2015 ISAAC BENABU Born Gibraltar, 15/12/46; British & Israeli Citizenship Married, with three children Native languages: English & Spanish; perfect fluency in French; fluency in Italian & Hebrew Address: (univ.) Dept. of Theatre Studies The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem (home) Rehov Bar Kokhba, 48/4 Tsameret Habira, Jerusalem, 97875 Tel: 972-2-588 3940 Fax: 972-2-588 3944 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 972-2-581 4880 ACADEMIC DEGREES 1968 B.A. First Class Honours, Westfield College, University of London 1978 M.Litt., King's College, Cambridge Area of specialization: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Lit. 1982 Ph.D. summa cum laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Area of specialization: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama ACADEMIC HONOURS 1967 Westfield College Association Prize for distinguished work in Spanish 1968 J.E.Joseph Travel Scholarship, London 1976-78 Major State Scholarship, England 1977 Le Bas Scholarship, Univ. of Cambridge 1981-82 Gottesfeld Fellowship, The Hebrew Univ. 1983 Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York 1985-88 Alon Fellow, Council for Higher Education, State of Israel 1985-89 Fellowship, The Vidal Madjar Foundation, Paris 1986 Hebrew Univ. Faculty of Humanities Prize for Innovative Research (jointly with J. Yahalom) 2 APPOINTMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION 1975-79 Lecturer in Spanish Lang. & Lit., Cambridge College of Arts & Technology, Cambridge 1976-79 Supervisor in Spanish Lang. & Lit. and French Lang.,University of Cambridge (King's,Trinity, Newnham, St. John and Churchill Colleges) 1979-80 Institute, Consulting Editor, Judeo-Spanish Dictionary Project, The Ben Zvi Jerusalem 1979-80 Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Romance Philology, Hebrew Univ. 1981-83 Instructor, Dept. of Romance Philology, Hebrew Univ. 1983-90 Senior Lecturer, Depts. of Theatre Studies, Spanish & Latin American Studies and Romance Philology, Hebrew Univ. 1987-88 Acting Chair, Dept. of Theatre Studies, Hebrew Univ. 1988-89 Visiting Lecturer, Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Univ. of Oxford 1991- 2000 Univ. Associate Professor (with tenure), Depts. of Theatre Studies, Hebrew 1993-96 Chairman, Dept. of Theatre Studies, Hebrew Univ. 1996-97 Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York 1996-97 Visiting Professor, University of Yale, Connecticut 2000 Visiting Professor, Universitat Bayreuth (Shakespeare Lectures) 2001/2 Visiting Scholar, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2001 – Associate Professor, Dept. of Theatre Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2002/07 Chairman, Dept. of Theatre Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem RESEARCH SUPERVISION 1982- Director of M.A. theses, Hebrew Univ. 1986- Director of Ph.D. theses, Hebrew Univ., Tel Aviv Univ., Bar Ilan Univ., Univ. of Leyden (Netherlands), Univ. of London. 3 MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES, ORGANIZATION, ETC. 1982- Member, Modern Language Association of America 1982-87 Member of CNRS (LACITO) / Hebrew Uni. Joint Project on Jewish Ethnolinguistics and Ethnomusicology 1983 Co-ordinator, B.A. programme in Judeo-Spanish Studies, Hebrew Univ. 1983 Historical Consultant on Gibraltar, Exhibition on `The Jewish Communities surrounding the Straits of Gibraltar', Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv 1984 Convenor, International colloquium `Litterae Judaeorum in Terra Hispanica' 1984- Member, Association of British Hispanists 1986 Member, Organizing Committee, The Second International Theatre Conference, Hebrew Univ. 1987 Member, Hebrew Univ. Faculty Co-ordinating Committee on the Commemoration of 1492 1987- Member, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (USA) 1987- Member, Editorial Board, Spanish Golden-Age Comedia Critical Editions series, Edition Reichenberger, Kassel, Germany 1989-91 Member, International Advisory Council, Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre (USA) 1990 Discussant, Fifteenth Siglo de Oro Theater Festival, Texas 1990-92 Committee Member, Israel National Committee for the Commemoration of the Expulsion of Jews from Spain and the Discovery of America 1991- Member, Board of Directors, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (USA) 1991 Judge, Sixteenth Siglo de Oro Theater Festival, Texas 1992- Director, University Theatre Company, Hebrew Univ. 1993-96 Chairman, Dept. of Theatre Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1993-96 Faculty representative on the Senate, Hebrew Univ. 4 1993- Artistic Director & Director General, Jerusalem International Festival of University Theatre 1993 Adjudicator, Eighteenth Siglo de Oro Theater Festival, Texas 1994- Member, Board of Directors, Israel Gur Theatre Archives, Israel 1994- Member, Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas 1994- Committee Member, Israel Association for Theatre Research 1994- Consultant, Israel Festival 1994Classical Chairman, Towards 2000 Committee, Association for Hispanic Theater (USA) 1995- Chairman, Academic Committee, Israel Gur Theatre Archives, Israel 1996 Director, Simposio internacional sobre el teatro del Siglo de Oro (Almagro, Spain) 1997- Member, International Advisory Board, Siglo de Oro Theatre Festival, Chamizal National Memorial, Texas 1998- Member, Editorial Board, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, University of London 1998- Council Member, National Authority for Ladino (Israel) 1999 Adjudicator, Twenty-fourth Siglo de Oro Theatre Festival, Texas 1999- Faculty representative on the Senate, Hebrew Univ. 2000- Board Member, The Jerusalem Theatre Company (Israel) 2000 Convenor, Simposio internacional sobre el teatro clásico – Association of Hispanic Classical Theatre in collaboration with El Festival Internacional de Almagro (Almagro, Spain) 2000 Joint Convenor, CONCEPTS International Symposium on ‘Theatre as Boundary Breaker ‘ (Jerusalem). 2001/2 Consultant, Renaissance Theatre Project, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney 2002 - Member, Selection & Promotions Committee, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2002 - 06 Chairman, Dept. of Theatre Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 5 2006 Visiting Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 2006/7 Halbert Fellowship, University of Toronto, Canada 2007 Lecture Tour in Australia, Friends of the Hebrew University 2007-10 Member, Degree-Validation Committee for Theatre Studies, The Ministry of Education and Culture, Israel 2007 - Member, University Promotions Committee 2009 Visiting Professor, University of Capetown, South Africa 2010 - Member, Modern Languages Association 2010 - Member, Sefarad (Israel) 6 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 1. September, 2015 I PH.D. DISSERTATION ‘Textual Criticism and Literary Criticism. Calderón de la Barca: the Tragedies’ (The Hebrew Univ., 1982)) II BOOKS 2. On the Boards and in the Press (Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 1991) (ix + 242pp.) Reviews: Hispania (Washington) 76.3 (1993),p.471; Insula (Madrid) no.556 (April 1993), p.5; Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool) LXXI (1994), pp.268-69 3. Reading for the Stage: Calderón and Contemporaries (Woodbridge, UK: Tamesis Books -- imprint of Boydell & Brewer, 2003) 4. III BOOKS EDITED Judeo-Romance Languages (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University & Misgav Yerushalayim, 1985) [xi + 232pp.] Joint Editor with Joseph Sermoneta Reviews: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool); Romanistisches Jahrbuch (Germany); Revue des Langues Romanes (France); Romance Philology (California) 5. 6. Circa 1492: Proceedings of a Jerusalem Colloquium (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University & Misgav Yerushalayim, 1992) [xii + 235pp.] Reviews: Romance Philology (Univ of California Press); Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool UP, UK), La corónica (Johns Hopkins UP., USA), 25.1 (1996), pp.172-75. IV SUB-EDITING Massorot: Studies in Language Tradition and Jewish Languages II, ed. M. Bar Asher & S. Morag (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1986) [French Language Editor] 7 ( IN PRINT) 7. Papers of the Seventh & Eighth British Judeo-Spanish Conference: Glasgow 1991 & Leeds 1993, ed. Paul J. Donnelly with Isaac Benabu (Glasgow: Glasgow University Press) V ARTICLES IN JOURNALS 1. ‘Further Thoughts on King Pedro's Predicament at the End of Calderón's El médico de su honra’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool University Press), 59:1 (1982), 26-32 2. ‘Humorous Tales from Morocco in Western Judeo-Spanish: A Linguistic Study’ [in Hebrew], Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore (Magnes Press), 5-6 (1984), 123-50 3. ‘Towards a History of the Diffusion of the Secular Hebrew Poetry of Medieval Spain’ [in Hebrew], Tarbiz (Jerusalem) 54:2 (1985), 245-62 [with J.Yahalom] 4. ‘The Importance of Genizah Manuscripts for the Establishment of the Hispano-Romance kharjas in Hebrew Characters’, Romance Philology (University of California Press), XL:2 (1986), 139-58 [with J. Yahalom] 5. ‘Judeo-Spanish’ in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J.R.Strayer, vol.7 (New York: Charles Scribners' Sons,1986), p.179 (double columns) 6. ‘Sephardim' in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J.R.Strayer, vol. 11 (New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1988), 161-62 (double columns) 7. ‘La devoción de la cruz y su ‘felice’ fin’, Hacia Calderón 5, ed. Hans Flasche (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner,1988), 210-20 8. ‘Shylock the Jew: Flashes from a Performance of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice’ [in Hebrew], BamahֹDrama Quarterly (Jerusalem), 117-118 (1989), 89-97 9. ‘Judeo-Spanish: Language and Literature' in The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, ed. G. Abramson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), 390-93 (double columns) 8 10. ‘El judeo-espanol: una lengua en peregrinación por el Mediterraneo’, Reflejos (Jerusalem), 1:1 (1992), 11-15 11. ‘Problems Posed by Literary Translations in the Theatre: García Lorca’s plays in Hebrew’ [in Hebrew], Bamah Drama Quarterly (Jerusalem), 125 (1992), 26-38 [with Rina Litvin] 12. ‘Playing Calderón: Tracing a Play's Receptive Frame’, Bulletin of the Comediantes (University of California Press), 45:1 (1993), 29-40 13. ‘How Did the Original Don Juan - The Trickster of Seville - Seduce his Audience?’ [in Hebrew] Bamahֹ Drama Quarterly (Jerusalem), 136 (1994), 41-47 14. ‘Who is the Protagonist? Gutierre on the Stand’, Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures (Indiana University Press), 2:2 (1994), 13-25 (included in no.3 in an expanded form) 15. ‘Reading the Opening of a Play: Tirso's El burlador de Sevilla ‘ in Bulletin of the Comediantes [Special number dedicated to Tirso de Molina] (University of California Press, 47:2 (1995), 191-200 16. ‘Calderón's La devoción and the question of genre’, Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures (Indiana Univ. Press), 10 & 11 (1997), 9-15 17. ‘La inconclusividad de un fin: Pedro Crespo y laproblematización del género en una lectura teatral de El alcalde de Zalamea’ in Texto e imagen en Calderón: Hacia Calderón 8, ed. Manfred Tietz (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner,1998), 37-45 18. ‘Notes on Reading the Seventeenth-Century Playtext: the Case of the Spanish Golden-Age Comedia’, [in Hebrew], Bama Drama Quarterly (Jerusalem), 155-6 (1999), 91-97 19. ‘Entre el teatro y la academia: decodificar la escritura teatral’, Comedia Performance (Washington, DC), 6:1 (Spring, 2009), 38-52 20. ‘Problemática de la lectura teatral del personaje: el caso de Bernarda Alba’, Theatralia. Revista de Poética del Teatro (Vigo: Academia del Hispanismo, ), vol. 11 (2009), 127-41 21. ,(Directing Spanish Golden-Age Theatre =) ''לביים את הקומדיה הספרדית של תור הזהב 52-62 ' עמ,]2009[ תשס’ט, ירושלים, 2במות ומסך 22. ( = Reading Bernarda Alba ’ המקרה של בת ברנרדה אלבה:קריאה תאטרונית של דמויות 9 Theatrically) 54-68' עמ,]2009[ תש’ע,4 ,במות ומסך 23. ‘Western Judeo-Spanish (hakitía): Tracing Speech through Narrative’ in European Judaism, 44: 1, Spring 2011: 36– 50 24. ‘Writing for the Stage: Two Shakespearean Examples’ (in Hebrew) Theatre Arts, Scene and Screen, 9 (2012), 40-48 25. ‘La construcción del personaje teatral: el Duque de Ferrara en El castigo sin venganza’, Olmedo, 2013 VI CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 1. ‘On the Transmission of the Judeo-Spanish Translation of the Bible: the Eastern and Western Traditions Compared’ in Judeo-Romance Languages, ed. I.Benabu & J. Sermoneta (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University & Misgav Yerushalayim, 1985), 1-26 2. ‘A la recherche de la Bible en Ladino: une traduction manusrcite du seizième siècle’ in Massorot: Studies in Language Tradition and Jewish Languages II, ed. M. Bar Asher & S. Morag (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, (1986),15-24 3. ‘A propos de l'ancienne Bible judéo-espagnole: observations sur les nouveaux travaux en cours à Jérusalem’ in Critiques et Editions des Textes: Actes du XVIIe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, vol.9 (Aix en Provence: Université de Provence, 1986), 269-78 4. Preface to Koen-Sarano, Matilda Kuentos del Folklor de la Famiya Djudeo-Espanyola (Jerusalem: Kana, 1986), xiv-xv 5. ‘Bible Translation in Judeo Spanish in Recent Times: A Cultural Linguistic Presentation’ in Studies in Jewish Languages: Bible Translations and Spoken Dialects, ed. Moshe Bar-Asher (Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim, 1988), 47-51 6. ‘Les kharjas hispano-romanes en caracteres hébraiques: Nouveaux témoins, nouvelles lectures’ in Actes du XVIIIe Congrès International de Linguistique et de Phililogie. Romanes, Université de Trève (Trier), (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1991) 10 7. ‘ ‘‘Rivers of oil inundated the Valley of Stones”: Towards a Methodology for Reading the Hispano-Romance kharjas in Hebrew Characters’ in Studies in the Muwassah and the Kharja, ed. Alan Jones & Richard Hitchcock (Oxford: Ithaca Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 1991), 16-28 8. ‘Orthography in the Hispano-Romance kharjas in Hebrew Characters’ in Poesía estrófica, ed. F. Corriente & A. Saenz Badillos (Madrid: Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense, 1991), 32-42 9. ‘Interpreting the Comedia in the Absence of a Performance Tradition: Gutierre in Calderón's El médico de su honra’, in Prologue to Performance, ed. L.& P.Fothergill-Payne (London & Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992), 23-35 Reviewed in Modern Language Review 89.3 (1994), p.785 10. ‘‘Sufrir y callar’: motivo de resolución a una acción trágica en el teatro español del siglo 17’ in Stage and Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century Spain, ed. B. Mujica (Washington: University Presses of America, 1993), 26-39 11. Introduction and conclusion to group article entitled: ‘Towards a Typology of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong: ‘Gerineldo’ and the romance Model’ in Jewish OralֹTraditions: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. Israel Adler et al. (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1994) 68-72 & 108-10 [with F. Alvarez Pereyre] 12. ‘Towards a Typology of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong: Gerineldo and the romance model. The Literary Parameter’ in Jewish Oral Traditions: Anֹ Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. Israel Adler et al. (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1994), 68-163 [with T. Alexander, Y. Ghelman, O. (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald & S. Weich-Shahak] Author’s contribution = Section A - The Text, 73-81 13. In the End is the Beginning: Reading a Seventeenth-Century Playtext for the Stage (VSS 943), 5th programme in series entitled Understanding the Comedia (Lafayette: Purdue University, 1994) 30 min.video programme written and presented by I. Benabu, directed by Prof. Charles Ganelan. 14. ‘Poetry in Two Languages: the Kharja and its Muwassah’ in Iberia & Beyond: Hispanic Jews between Cultures, ed. B. Cooperman (Newark & London: Associated University Presses, 1998), 123-42 15. ‘On Directing the Comedia’ in The Siglo de Oro Drama Festival: 25th Anniversary Volume (El Paso, Texas: Chamizal National Memorial, 2000), pp.40-41 (double columns) 11 16. ‘Leer lo ‘ilegible’: Apuntes para una lectura teatral de la Comedia ‘ in El texto puesto en escena, ed. Barbara Mujica & Anita Stoll (London: Tamesis, 2000),141-50 17. ‘Directing the comedia: Notes on a Process' in Comedia in English, eds. Don Larson & Susan Paun de García (London: Tamesis Books, 2008), 153-63 18. ‘Life after Death? Surviving Traces of Haketía’, El Presente: Estudios sobre la cultura sefaradí eds. Tamar Alexander and Yaacov Bentolila, vol.2 (n.p.: Ben Gurion Univ., 2008), 243-52 19. ‘Life After Death: Surviving Traces of Haketía among the Jews of Gibraltar’ in Selected Papers from the Fifteenth British Conference of Judeo-Spanish Studies ed. Chris Pountain, Hilary Pomeroy, Elena Romero (London: Dept. of Iberian & Latin American Studies, Queen Mary College, Univ. of London), pp.51-61 20. ‘El poeta canta en dos lenguas : la jarcha y su muwassah ’, Jerusalén y Toledo’, ed. Manuel Casado Velarde, Ruth Fine, Carlos Mata Insuráin (Madrid : Iberoamericana. Vervuert, 2012 21. ‘Constructing Stage Character: The Duke of Ferrara’ in Fischer Festschrift, ed. Barbara Mujica (Washington: University Presses of America, 2013), pp.? 22. ‘Inquisitorial Pressures: Honour as Metaphor on the Boards’, Prismatic Reflections: Essays in Honour of Matthew D. Stroud , ed. Gwyn E. Campbell & Amy R. Williamsen (New York: Lang, 2016. Ibérica 44), 303310 23. ‘El secreto como hilo dramático que enmaraña una acción trágica’ (Heidelberg) 24. ‘Biblia y comedia: la caraceterización del héroe mediante una lectura teatral’ (Jerusalem) 25. ‘Ver accion tragica donde no la hay : perspectivas criticas sobre La devocion de la Cruz” (Univ. Wein)) VII 1. (ARTICLES IN PRINT) Introduction to Papers of the Seventh and Eighth British Judeo-Spanish Conference: Glasgow 1991 & Leeds 1993, ed. Paul. J. Donnelly (Glasgow: Glasgow University Press) [10pp.] 12 2. ‘Entre la Comedia del Siglo de Oro y Brecht’, in Jornades Bertolt Brecht, ed. Ricard Salvat (Barcelona: Institut del Teatre) [34pp.] 3. ‘Listening to the Playwright's Voice: Shakespeare and Theatrical Writing [14pp.] 4. ‘Probing the Playwright’s Pen: Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III’ [15pp] VIII REVIEW Review of PETER E. THOMPSON. The Triumphant Juan Rana: A Gay Actor of the Spanish Golden Age in Revista de estudios canadienses, 31:3 (2008), p. 551 IX PAPERS DELIVERED AT RECENT CONFERENCES December, 1994 ‘Staging Calderón's El alcalde’, Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego December, 1995 ‘The Problematics of Genre: Calderón's Devotional Comedy’, Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago March, 1996 ‘Considering the Genre of Calderón's El alcalde de Zalamea’, Golden-Age Symposium, UTEP, El Paso (Texas) July, 1996 ‘Para representar la clausura’, AHCT Simposio sobre el teatro del Siglo de Oro, Almagro (Spain) July, 1996 ‘Pedro Crespo y la problematización del género en una lectura teatral’, Undécimo coloquio anglogermano sobre Pedro Calderón de la Barca, University of St. Andrews (Scotland) October, 1996 ‘Staging Lorca’, Humanities College, Bucknell University (USA) November, 1996 ‘La cuestión del género en la comedia del Siglo de Oro español’, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México November 1996 ‘Del final al comienzo: modelo para leer y montar a los clásicos’, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Ciudad de México Nov., 1996 ‘Tracing Tirso’s Stage-Directions in El burlador de Sevilla and Other Plays’, Dept. of Modern Langs., Georgetow University, Washington D.C. 13 December, 1996 ‘Religious versus Secular Spectating: The Case for the GoldenAge Comedia’, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C. January, 1997 ‘Reading the Spanish Golden-Age Comedia for the Stage’, Guest lecture, Dept. of Hispanic Studies, Yale University, USA 11. March, 1997 ‘Studying Renaissance Drama as Theatre: Shakespeare and Calderón’, Guest Lecture, Dept. of English, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid March, 1997 ‘Approaches to Performance: the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico and the Royal Shakespeare Company ‘, Guest Lecture, Dept. of Theatre Studies, Universidad de Murcia, Spain June, 1997 ‘The Theoretical vis-à-vis the Practical: Directing Calderón’s The Physician of his Honour, Association Internationale du Théatre à l’Université, Montréal, Canada March, 1998 ‘Reverentiality and Theatrical Practice: Perspectives on the Comedia’ AHCT Golden -Age Symposium, El Paso, Texas November, 1998 ‘Entre Brecht y el teatro del Siglo de Oro español’, Institut del Teatre, Barcelona December, 1998 ‘El abolengo dramático del protagonista trágico español: la Bernarda Alba de García Lorca’, Congreso Interancional ‘Así que han pasado cien años’, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel December, 1998 ‘La problemática de la lectura teatral del personaje en las tragedias de Federico García Lorca’, Simposio internacional sobre la Generación del ‘98, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem March, 1999 ‘Los espacios del texto teatral’, AHCT Golden Age Symposium, El Paso, Texas July, 2000 ‘Midiendo los pasos de d. Juan sobre las tables: Cuando Tirso habla’, AHCT Simposio sobre el teatro del Siglo de Oro, Almagro (Spain) November, 2001 ‘Staging a Classic: Calderon’s Life is a Dream and the Sydney Theatre Company’s Production’, Dept. of Theatre Studies, Sydney University November, 2001 ‘Perception and the Theatre of the World’, Guest Lecture, Jewish National Fund, Adelaide February, 2002 ‘Provoking the Audience: the Problematics of Responding in the 14 Theatre’, Public Lecture, Playbox Theatre, Melbourne, Australia July, 2007 ‘Shakespeare’s Shylock’, The Jewish Museum, Sydney, Australia August, 2008 ‘ Theatre and National Identity: the case of Israeli Theatre’ University of Buenos Aires, Argentina August, 2009 ‘Shylock the Jew?’, Univ. of Capetown November, 2009 ‘El poeta canta en dos lenguas’, Univ. de Castilla la La Mancha (Toledo) March, 2010, May, 2010 ‘Reading the Duke in Lope’s El castigo’, AHCT Golden Age Symposium, El Paso, Texas ‘Listening to the Playwright’s Voice’, Florida Atlantic Univ., Florida February, 2011 ‘Straightening the Record on Bernarda Alba’, Public lecture at the Faculty of Humanities, Georgetown University, Washinton D.C. November, 2012 ‘Probing the Playwright’s Pen’, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem November, 2013 ‘Constructing Stage Character|: The Duke of Ferrara in Lope’s El castigo sin venganza’ In the Wings Conference, Bath, UK December, 2014 ‘Probing the Playwright’s Pen: Shakespeare and Theatrical Writing” (Dept. of English Research Seminar, Frei Universitat, Berlin March, 2015 ‘El secreto como hilo dramático que enmarana: Calderón y El médico de su honra” Hispanistentag, Universitat Heidelberg November, 2015 ‘Biblia y comedia: la caraceterización del héroe mediante una lectura teatral’ Jerusalem Bible conference July/August 2015 3 Sydney lectures. X RECENT ֹTHEATRE PRODUCTIONS 1991 García Lorca's Blood Wedding (in Hebrew), The University Theatre Company - The Hebrew University, at The Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem 1992 García Lorca's Yerma (in Hebrew), The University Theatre Company The Hebrew University, at the Gerard Behar Centre for the Performing Arts, Jerusalem 15 1993 Chorus (one-act play). Composed and directed. Presented at The First National Student Theatre Festival, at the Gerard Behar Centre for the Performing Arts, Jerusalem 1994 Isaac Chocrón's Escrito y Sellado (in Hebrew), The University Theatre Company - The Hebrew University, at Mishkenot Shaananim, Jerusalem 1997 Calderón de la Barca’s The Physician of his Honour (= El medico de su honra) (in English), Professional Theatre Training Programme, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Performed at Festival of Spanish Golden-Age Drama, El Paso, Texas. Awarded the Walker M. Reid Award. Reviewed in Primer Acto (Madrid), Sept.-Oct. 1997, 104-07 1998 Confessions Project in progress, composed and directed by Irit Amar and Isaac Benabu The University Theatre Company - The Hebrew University. Presented at the 5th Jerusalem International Festival of University Theatre at the Gerard Behar Centre for the Performing Arts, Jerusalem 1999-2000 Confession times Three Based on an idea by Irit Amar & Isaac Slomiansky, and developed by Irit Amar and Isaac Benabu. Directed by Isaac Benabu. Presented at The International Student Theatre Festival, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, The International Theatre Festival, Université de Franche-Comté, Besancon, France, and The 7th Jerusalem International Festival of University Theatre 2000 Directed Matilda Cohen-Sarano’s musical Sefaradis de dor en dor ( in Ladino) with music by Haim Tsur for the Israel Broadcasting Corporation 2002 Tirso de Molina’s El burlador de Sevilla (=The Trickster of Seville), AIET, Universidad de Barcelona. Presented at the International Festival of Siglo de Oro Festival, El Paso, Texas, and subsequently on tour in N. Mexico 2004 The Two Charlottes by Nora Glickman. Presented at various venues in New York during February, and at the International Theatre Festival, Quito, Ecuador in March. 2004 -10 The Days of Adel [in Hebrew] by Uri Nitsan. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (running in several commercial theatres). 2005 Entanglement (a fictional adaptation based on the life of Einstein) by Mara Beller. Premiered at The Khan Theatre, Jerusalem 2007-8 Romancero Lorquiano (Lorca meets death on the boards), University Theatre, Jerusalem & University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 16 XI INTERNATIONAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS, PLAY-READINGS, ETC. 1991 ‘In the End is the Beginning: Reading for the Stage’, Sixteenth Siglo de Oro Festival, Texas - in collaboration with the Compañía Paco Portes (Madrid) 1991 `Staging the Golden-Age Comedia', Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico, Almagro (Spain) - in collaboration with Paco Portes 1993 `Playing the Lady: from text to stage', Seventeenth Siglo de Oro Festival, Texas - in collaboration with Maritza Wilde (Bolivia) 1996 `Bi-lingual Theatre in Performance', ARTUS, University of Strasbourg 1997 Directed a public play-reading of Isaac Chocrón’s Inscribed and Sealed (in English), American Friends of the Hebrew University Inc., at 362 West Broadway, New York. In the presence of the playwright and Edward Albee 2007 ‘On the Road to Performance: Work-shopping Two Monodramas’, The Graduate Centre, CUNY, New York. With the collaboration of a Nora Glickman (playwright) and Fortuna Roth (actor) Add 3 Sydney lectures in 2015