Noam Meiri

Noam Meiri (Hebrew: נעם מאירי; born March 27, 1958) is an Israeli theater artist, actor, director and acting teacher.

He studied at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (1984-1986) and completed his education in the Alexander technique and the Laban Movement Analysis method.

H In 1987 Meiri co-founded the theater troupe Faubourg Teatron, along with Rivi Feldmesser-Yaron and Walter Anichoffer (Austria).

In 1990 Meiri created the HaAchim Grim Mesparim (Grimm Brothers Tell Tales) show, which was performed regularly at the Beit Lessin Theater, with the musicians Tzvia Sharet and Gal Friedman.

[4] He used this method while directing Shay Schwartz's play, Tzeh HaHutza, Yeled Ra (Out, Bad Boy!)

in 1992 for the Teatroneto Festival for One-Person Plays at Tel Aviv's Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater.

He performed at the same festival in 1993 with the one-man play Momik,[5] adapting David Grossman's novel,[6] directed by Daniella Michaeli.

In 1994 Noam Meiri and Yair Qedar started the theater troupe Yesh Lo Milim Mishelo (Words of His Own).

Meiri also directed and played in the show by the same name composed of texts written by Gay Israeli writers, along with the actors Itzik Cohen, Tzahi Grad [7] and Hagai Ayad.

In 1996-2001 Meiri taught at the Performing Arts Studio founded by Yoram Leowenstein,[10] directing original productions with studio graduates, such as Good Stuff, with the playwright Sigal Avin and the actors Yuval Segal, Dorit Bar Or, Hila Goshen,[11] Natti Ornan [12] and others; Lovers' Stories, with Sigal Avin, Gavriel Hadar,[13] Tamar Michael, Oded Manster and others; Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost with Yael Sharoni,[14] Yuval Berger,[15] Yoav Yeffet and others.

In 2013 he created the original opera show Longing for Amor and Psyche (in German) at the Pina Bausch Theater [17] in Essen, Germany.

[19] The play, directed by Noam Ben Azar [20] was staged at the Tmuna Theater,[21] and was nominated for the Golden Hedgehog Award in 2013.

[23] He also played the lead role in An Evening without Na'ama (1992), directed by Moshe Zimmerman, with the actors Limor Goldstein,[24] Doron Tsabari,[25] Michael Sharfstein [26] and others.

The Teatroneto Festival for One-Person Plays at Tel Aviv's Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater.

A one-man-show, directed by Noam Ben Azar,[29] with original music composed by pianist Vered Dekel.

Momik, 1993–94, a one-person play adapting David Grossman's novel See Under: Love, directed by Daniella Michaeli was performed by Meiri at the Teatroneto Festival for One-Person Plays at Tel Aviv's Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater.

Memshelet Nashim (A Government of Women), 1993, A comedy written by Nisim Aloni and directed by Frida Rafael for the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theater [31].

Nashim BaPark (Women in the Park), 1987 by the theater troupe Faubourg Teatron Meiri co-founded along with Rivi Feldmesser-Yaron and Walter Anichoffer (Austria).

Little Fingers [33], 1996–97, written and directed by Avishay Grinfeld-Caspi, featuring dancer Alice Dor-Cohen, pianist Zehava Simon and violinist Shimon Abelovitch.

Based on stories by Lea Goldberg (Flat to Let) and Jean de Brunhoff (Babar the Elephant).

1999 - current Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany, Professor of the Jacques Lecoq Method of Physical Theater.

2009-2015, Feldenkrais Zentrum [42] Chava Shalev, Germany 2004-2015 Tel Aviv Beit Ariela Municipal Library School for Storytellers.