"At Night's End" meet playwright Motti Lerner

($5/ticket at the door) 
WRITTEN By:  Motti Lerner
Translated From Hebrew By:  Yoni Oppenheim
Israeli Stage is excited to be hosting award-winning playwright Motti Lerner for a workshop of his latest play,  At Night's End . The workshop will be led by OBIE-Award winning director and Chair of the Performing Arts at Emerson College Melia Bensussen. We are thrilled to be collaborating with two artists of such caliber, and for the opportunity to introduce you, our audiences, to one of Israel's most prominent playwrights in person.
The American premiere of  At Night's End,  a two-act play, will be presented on February 11th at 2PM at the Goethe Institut  Boston. The performance will be followed by a Q&A with Motti Lerner, moderated by Producing Artistic Director Guy Ben-Aharon.
ABOUT Motti Lerner  Motti Lerner studied mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and theater in London and San Francisco. From 1979 to 1984, he was director and playwright at the Khan Theater in Jerusalem. Since then, he has been a freelance playwright and screenwriter for the major theaters and TV channels in Israel, as well as a lecturer in political playwriting at Tel Aviv University. He has also been writer-in-residence at the Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies in Oxford, Visiting Drama Professor at Duke University, USA, and frequently lectures at European and American universities on Israeli theater, especially in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lerner has written many plays and many TV films and drama series. His plays have been produced in the USA, England, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Australia. He has received many awards including the Israeli Academy Award for Children`s Drama (1980), the Meskin Play of the Year Award (1985), the Prime Minister`s Prize (1994), the Israeli Motion Picture Academy Award for Best TV Drama (1995) and Best TV Feature Film (2004).