Don’t miss Melbourne Jewish Book Week’s inaugural literary dinner with international femme celebre, Eleanor Reissa — actress, songstress, director, playwright and author, in conversation with MC, Gary Abrahams, Executive Director of Kadimah Yiddish Theatre.
SOLD OUT: Melbourne Jewish Book Week Literary Dinner, featuring Eleanor Reissa (US)
Sunday August 18, 2024
6.30pm—9.30pm
6.30pm—9.30pm
Artists
Eleanor Reissa
Eleanor Reissa is a storyteller in English and Yiddish – her first language. She is an award- winning director and playwright, actress, singer, translator, choreographer, and author. She was last seen on Broadway in ‘Indecent’, plays the matriarch in ‘The Zweiflers’, winner of the Cannes TV Series Award 2024, and has an anthology, The Last…
Gary Abrahams
Gary is the Executive Director of Kadimah Yiddish Theatre and a freelance Director and Playwright. He has directed the Australian premieres and National tours of several large-scale commercial shows, as well as classic texts, contemporary plays, new Australian scripts, and devised projects. His work encompasses large scale commercial plays and musicals, main-stage works, independent shows…