Yevgeny Aryeh is an Israeli theater director, playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

, scriptwriter, and set designer.

Career

In the Soviet Union, Aryeh was a veteran theater and television director.

Aryeh has been the theater director for the Gesher Theater

Gesher Theater

Gesher Theater is an Israeli theater company founded in 1991 by new immigrants from Russia.-History:Gesher Theatre was founded in Israel in 1991 with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Jewish Agency, the City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, The Tel Aviv Development Foundation and the...

, in Tel Aviv, Israel, and noted for his "special vision". Gesher was founded in 1991 by Russian immigrants headed by Aryeh.

In 2001, Aryeh received a nomination for the Israel Theater Prize for playwright, for Satan in Moscow. In 2003, he received nominations as director, scriptwriter, and set designer for an Israeli Theater Award for the production of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978...

's love story The Slave.

In 2005, Aryeh was voted the 170th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet

Ynet

Ynet is the most popular Israeli news and general content website. It is owned by the same conglomerate that operates Yediot Ahronot, the country's secondleading daily newspaper...

to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

In 2009, he was a winner of the Yuri Shtern Prize for New Immigrant Artists, awarded by Israeli Absorption Minister

Immigrant Absorption Minister of Israel

The Ministry of Immigrant Absorption of Israel , known until 1951 as the Ministry of Immigration , a ministry in the Israeli government.In co-ordination with local authorities, the Ministry is responsible for new immigrants for three weeks after they arrive...

, then Eli Aflalo

Eli Aflalo

Eli Aflalo is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. Between July 2008 and March 2009 he was the country's Minister of Immigrant Absorption.-Biography:...

.
The same year,2011, Yevgeny Arye won in Russia the prestigious Stanislavski international prize for theatre due to his directing the adaptation (by him and by Royi Hen) of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978...

's story, Enemies, a Love Story

Enemies, a Love Story

Enemies, a Love Story is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer first published serially in the Jewish Daily Forward in 1966. The English translation was published in 1972.-Plot summary:...