Ran Chai Bar-Zvi (GER/ISR)

is a theater director and writer as well as a set and costume designer.
Born in Jerusalem in 1989, he studied costume and stage design at the Berlin-Weißensee Academy of Art. This was followed by work with and for Rimini Protokoll, Schauspielhaus Dresden, Ruhrtriennale, Heimathafen Neukölln, Glanz & Krawall and Munich Volkstheater, among others.
His video works with the artists Doireann O’Malley and Michael Portnoy were shown at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin and at the Steirischer Herbst art festival.
As director and writer, he created DARK ROOM at Schauspiel Hannover, followed by his adaptation of the acclaimed novel DAS WIRKLICHE LEBEN by Adeline Dieudonné. Subsequent productions for the Stages of the City of Cologne, Staatstheater Mainz and Volkstheater Munich (DAS GROSSE HEFT after Ágota Kristóf; invited to “radikal jung” festival in Munich, 2024). In April 2024, Ran Chai Bar-zvi’s first opera production ZAÏDME/ADAMA based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Chaya Czernowin premiered at the Stadttheater Aachen.

In the upcoming season, Ran Chai Bar-zvi will work at Theater Münster and Volkstheater Munich.
www.ran-chai.com