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Dr. Michael Morris-Reich | The Department of Theatre Studies

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Department Secretary: Orlit Keysar

Office hours: Sunday: 11:30-14:30, Monday-Thursday: 10:00-13:00

Room: 4607

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Tel.: 00-972-2-5883936

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Dr. Olga Levitan

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Chair of the Department of Theater Studies

Dr. Diego Rotman

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Dr. Michael Morris-Reich

michael moris-reich
Dr.
Michael
Morris-Reich
Office hours: by appointment

I am a playwright, teacher and researcher.

I completed my first degree in writing and directing at theater department at the Tel Aviv University with distinction. With the help of a scholarship from the British Council I studied at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford, Shakespeare’s birth place. The subject of my MPhil was the Dramatic Techniques in the plays Macbeth and Julius Caesar. On my return to Israel I researched the impact of the changes in the economic and administrative structure of the institutionalized theater in Israel on the work process and quality of Israeli playwriting.  I was awarded a summa cum laude for my Doctorate on the thesis on this subject at Haifa University. My most recent presentation of research took place at  the Mofet International Conferences of education and the annual conference of the Israel Communication Association in 2019, and presented a model for analyzing the dramaturgical and performative aspects of  the speeches of politicians .The speeches of Miri Regev, an  Israeli  member of the Knesset, provided the raw material for this analysis .

My plays, for which I was awarded numerous prizes, were staged in a multitude of theaters such as The Haifa theater, Tzavta ,The Acre Festival, Tmunah and  were performed by many leading Israeli actors and comedians such Polli of the Gashash Hachiver, Tal Friedman, Edna Fliedel, Hanna Roth , Amnon Meskin, Yarden Bar Kochvah and others. At the moment rehearsals of a play of mine are underway at the Alfa Theater, under the concept of Immersive Theater. Actors and members of the audience mingle to sup together during the performance.

I have also collaborated with educational theater and together with the young participants written the texts of musicals of educational and historical value, particularly with Etheopian adolescents.  I am also a dramaturge, who has accompanied playwrights to the performance of their plays which have subsequently received praise and prizes.

At this time I am teaching at the Hebrew University and at Emunah College in Jerusalem. I have taught at Haifa University, Sapir College, Beit Zvi, The Cholon Acting Studio, and the School for Dramatic Writing, which was dedicated solely to teaching writing for the theatre.

In the last few years, I have been very active in various civil protest movements and among others I participated in founding The Citizens Election Guard. This is a voluntary citizens organization which placed thousands of voluntary observers in the polling stations during the last four elections in Israel. I am at the moment writing the story of this undertaking, examining it as s case study of  the increased decline of political trust amongst citizens, and the manner selected by them to fight this decline.