אורשינא

Hanit Guli is an Israeli playwright, theater director, and founder of The Mud House Theatre, which is located in Israel’s southernmost tip, in the city of Eilat. She is a graduate of the master’s program in writing and directing at the Tel Aviv University Department of Theater. In 2006, her first play, Zoe, was performed as part of the Open Stage Festival at the Beit Lessin Theater in Tel Aviv. In 2010, her play I Shulamit, which she also directed, received an honorable mention in the Small-Bama Theatre Festival. Her work, which also includes children’s plays and short stories, reflects her passion for minority rights, oppressed people, and women’s struggle for power. Currently, she is working on her play 32 Scudi—inspired by the short story "A Heretic’s Coat" by Bertolt Brecht.

Yaron Regev is a literary translator and author, writing in both Hebrew and English. His Hebrew novel, Lilith, has won the second Smith Award for Israeli fiction and will be published in 2017. His graphic novel, Ghosts of Love and Country, will be published in 2018. His English novel, The Door behind the Sun, has been picked up by the Deborah Harris Literary Agency for representation.