ORI GOLAD

Director & Creator

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"All art is at once surface and symbol.Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."

Oscar Wilde

ABOUT

As a theater director and creator, Ori Golad, unique vision centers around exploring theater as a participatory art form, encouraging self-exploration and interaction between the audience and the art.

Golad's performances are transformative experiences that challenge traditional notions of theater, turning audiences into active participants rather than passive spectators. By breaking the fourth wall and shattering the confines of two-dimensional theater, Golad creates unforgettable experiences that stay with audiences long after the show has ended.

Golad's education in theater directing from Tel-Aviv University and training at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City has provided him with a solid foundation in the craft of theater-making. His work includes several successful running shows, production companies, and one-time events.

SHOWS

Shadows

2024 - Now

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Director

An immersive experience based on Dracula and taking place in a two story night-club.

BACKSTAGE

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2020 - Now

Director and curator

An artist collective creating unique one time events celebrating the cabaret, the bizarre and the wild side of theater.

A REPORT TO AN ACADEMY

2021

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Based on a short story by Kafka with the same name. This site specific production was a collaboration with the TAU Art Gallery and was tailored to thier Plan(e)t exhibition.

TRACERS

2020

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Director, translation and adaptation.

Based on the play "Tracers" by John Di Fusco. This immersive theater experience makes the audience take part in a support group for PTSD and experience what it is like to live in a world built of fears and flashbacks.

Tel-Aviv University theater.

THE FORTH WALL

2016 - 2020

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Director, owner, artistic director, writer.

With two running shows: “Crime Pays” and “Crime Pays - Las Vegas”, this production company specializes in audience participation. The show takes place in a bar specially designed to take the audience to a different time, where they would play a role created for them. With thousands of attendees and hundreds of shows, these theatrical events are intended to expose different audiences to the concept of participatory theater.

Various locations.

www.crimepays.co.il

THE DECADENTS

2017 - Now

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Directing, Co-writing, Acting.

A monthly show that opens the stage to the performance artist in all of us. The shows are created each month in relation to current events with a dark humor twist.

Tel-Aviv, Israel

WHITE DONKEY THEATER

2014 - 2015

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Director, Creator and Concept Design.

In order to create accessible theater for all, Ori devised a traveling theater cart that opens up to a full-size stage. With a group of talented actors, Ori and The White Donkey theater went on a cross Israel tour, performing Berthold Brecht's "The Exception and the Rule" in over 30 different open-air locations, free for all.

Sponsored by Hapais Council for the Culture and Arts and The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts.

Various locations, Israel.

FIRE CEREMONY - MIDBURN

2015

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Director, art director.

This one time event in MidBurn festivals (Isreals reginal Burning man event) took Theater back to its original festivic form. This exstreme event culminated in over a hundred dancers, drummers and fire jugglers preforming together to thousends of participents.

Collaberated with Mayumana group.

The Negev desert, Israel.