Roy Chen (ISR)

Born in Tel Aviv in 1980, he is a self-taught author, playwright, theater maker and translator. Since 2007, he has been the resident playwright at the Gesher Theater in Jaffa, where many of his works have been produced and performed, most recently “Аnybody Here.” Chen’s productions, plays and translations have reached international stages in China, Russia, Canada and the USA. He is fluent in English, Russian, French and Italian. He has also translated over 40 plays into Hebrew, including works by Pushkin, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov.

Roy Chen has received a number of awards for his work, including the S.Y. Agnon Prize for Literature (2023), the Rosenblum Prize for Performing Arts of the City of Tel Aviv (2022), the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (2022) and the Yitzhak Navon Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Sports (2017) for the preservation and cultivation of Israeli culture.