Orly Noa Rabinyan
Orly Noa Rabinyan
Born in Israel to Persian parents, Orly Noa Rabinyan is an independent theatre director, writer and voice artist, trained in London and in Tel Aviv. Current project: THE APPEAL – a performance based on the protocol of the 1936 literary trial held in Tel Aviv following the first Hebrew production of The Merchant of Venice. Premiered at Hameretz Club, Tel Aviv in 2023, THE APPEAL is now in adaptation for neimenster, Luxembourg, 2024-2025.
Previously she wrote and directed Multi Verse – a multilingual piece in seven different languages, premiered at the Neumarkt, Zurich. In search of cultural hybrids she created the Posthome directorial trilogy, which included: AN INVENTED PERSIAN TEA CEREMONY, a participatory event performed at changing locations in Israel and abroad. An adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s story THE MAN WITH THE FLOWER IN HIS MOUTH, performed in Hebrew and Italian at Jaffa & Haifa Theatres. The third part, PARRHESIA, explored the connection between the rituals of wedding and burial, and premiered at Tmuna in Tel Aviv.
Other selected credits: OMG by Anat Gov at Karl Der Grosse, Zurich. HER ISRAELI STORY – a cross disciplinary performance at Ebraica Festival, Rome. BULL by Mike Bartlett at Mara Theatre, nominated for Best Show & awarded Best Stage Design at the Israeli Fringe Awards. A site-specific adaptation inspired by Maurice Meaterlinck’s INTERIOR for the Banqiao 435 Art Zone in Taipei, Taiwan. FLEABAG by Phoebe Waller-Bridge performed in German at the Israel Festival, Jerusalem. HONEYPOT by Julia Pascal at the New Diorama theatre, London. Her play A DROP IN THE SEA at Tzavta, Tel Aviv.
Orly Noa was an Artist in Residence at the Watermill Center as a co-founding member of the WWLab international directors’ collective. She co-artistic directed the podcast of EVE - Israeli Association of Independent Stage Artists. Her work is supported by The Independent Artists’ Fund, Lottery Arts, AICF, Ministry of Culture and Asylum Arts.
