First Name
Yoni
Middle Name
Last Name
Oppenheim
City
Country
State or Province
Job Title
Co-Founding Artistic Director
Biography
Yoni Oppenheim is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company. He directs and dramaturges new and devised work. Yoni was a 2019 Target Margin Theater Institute Fellow. He was the Associate Producer of Theater Talk Live airing on PBS in June 2019. For 24/6's ongoing TELEPHONE PLAYS he was featured on WCBS 880's Difference Makers, receiving Multiplying Good's Jefferson Award.
In January 2024, he dramaturged "The Lehman Trilogy" directed by Rod Kaats for The Phoenix Theatre Company. In 2023 he dramaturged (with Rachel Sheinkin) a concert of the musical "To Paint the Earth" by Portera/Levin directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge at the Museum of Jewish Heritage and subsequently directed a concert of the piece at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. He provided Yiddish dramaturgy for "Paris, Actors!" by Hamish Linklater directed by Jack O'Brien at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Mainstage Reading Series, and Jewish dramaturgy for "Un Hombre: A Golem Story" by Stephen Kaplan at the Jewish Plays Project.
He directed the audio play "Come Again" by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend
for Dean Productions Theater Company.
In 2020, he performed his lecture-performance "My Archive of Mourning and Memory" as part of Lola Arias's My Documents | Share your screen! The Open Call Edition and his short film "Coronavirus Diary" was screened in Berlin as part of Arias's PANDEMIC FILMS series.
For 24/6, most recently, he directed two plays by Israeli playwright Dani Horowitz, Last Tree in Jerusalem (translated by Oppenheim) and A Page of Talmud at TheaterLab NYC. He conceived, commissioned and directed the World Premiere of Looking Through Glass by Ken Kaissar. He is currently developing with 24/6, Marrying In by Miryam Madrigal, which he has directed a reading for Dramatist Guild Baltimore's Footlight series at Spotlighters. He has directed a new Jewish adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Passover Plays, Sabbath Variations (LimmudPhilly), SHINSAI: Theaters for Japan; The Victims; adapted/directed A Doll House (The Tank); book and lyrics for Nittel Nacht. His work has been seen in the United States, Israel, Germany and Norway.
Translator: Last Tree in Jerusalem by Dani Horowitz (stage reading JCC Manhattan 2015, World Premiere 2019) ; At Night’s End for acclaimed Israeli playwright Motti Lerner (World Premiere at Knox College, directed by Neil Blackadder; Reading at The Lark, NYC, Workshop at Israeli Stage Boston directed by Melia Bensussen.) Dramaturg/Researcher: Posterity by Doug Wright (World Premiere at Atlantic Theater Company). Dramaturg: Paris, Actors! by Hamish Linklater (NY Stage and Film Powerhouse Theater Reading directed by Leigh Silverman; Yiddish dramaturgy/research Williamstown Theatre Festival Mainstage Reading Series directed by Jack O'Brien); He Who Laughs by Ian Cohen (JCC Theaterworks), HAGGADAH… (Witness Relocation /LaMama).
Yoni was the Theater Faculty for Brandeis University's BIMA High School Summer Arts Program 2013. He is a 2013 NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs SPARC (Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide) Grantee. During his 2012 SPARC Residency he created Home of the Brave: WWII Experiences in the Military and on the Homefront, based on oral histories of senior citizens at the Riverdale Y. Additional Directing credits: Evolutionism or Dammit We Took the Shortcut! (Manhattan Rep), Etta Sings for Change (Duplex), The Perfect Human 2009 (The 6th Obstruction) (14th Street Y), FAST and The Consistency of Flour (Drisha Institute/JCC); Yo Miss!... (LPAC); Crito and Na’im (The Lover) (S.E.E. Theater); Oleanna, The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in the Garden, and Swan Song (NYU Tisch) AD: Dog and Wolf (59E59); To Paint the Earth (NYMF/37Arts); Earthquake Chica (SPF/Theater Row) Contributing Artist: Knut er død: Hamsunjubileet 2008-10 (Teater NOR, Norway). He lead “Improv for Seniors” at the Riverdale Y. Yoni is a recipient of the John Dana Archbold Fellowship at the University of Oslo; Dorot Fellowship in Israel; and the Spielberg Fellowship in Jewish Theater Education. He is the associate editor of the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s catalogue “Plays of Jewish Interest” has written about the Origins of Jewish Theater and was the artistic consultant to both the Drisha Arts Fellowship and the inaugural JOFA Dinner/Exhibition “Putting Women Back in the Picture”. BFA Drama: NYU-Tisch/PHTS; M. Phil Ibsen Studies: U. Oslo. Member: Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.
In January 2024, he dramaturged "The Lehman Trilogy" directed by Rod Kaats for The Phoenix Theatre Company. In 2023 he dramaturged (with Rachel Sheinkin) a concert of the musical "To Paint the Earth" by Portera/Levin directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge at the Museum of Jewish Heritage and subsequently directed a concert of the piece at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. He provided Yiddish dramaturgy for "Paris, Actors!" by Hamish Linklater directed by Jack O'Brien at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Mainstage Reading Series, and Jewish dramaturgy for "Un Hombre: A Golem Story" by Stephen Kaplan at the Jewish Plays Project.
He directed the audio play "Come Again" by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend
for Dean Productions Theater Company.
In 2020, he performed his lecture-performance "My Archive of Mourning and Memory" as part of Lola Arias's My Documents | Share your screen! The Open Call Edition and his short film "Coronavirus Diary" was screened in Berlin as part of Arias's PANDEMIC FILMS series.
For 24/6, most recently, he directed two plays by Israeli playwright Dani Horowitz, Last Tree in Jerusalem (translated by Oppenheim) and A Page of Talmud at TheaterLab NYC. He conceived, commissioned and directed the World Premiere of Looking Through Glass by Ken Kaissar. He is currently developing with 24/6, Marrying In by Miryam Madrigal, which he has directed a reading for Dramatist Guild Baltimore's Footlight series at Spotlighters. He has directed a new Jewish adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Passover Plays, Sabbath Variations (LimmudPhilly), SHINSAI: Theaters for Japan; The Victims; adapted/directed A Doll House (The Tank); book and lyrics for Nittel Nacht. His work has been seen in the United States, Israel, Germany and Norway.
Translator: Last Tree in Jerusalem by Dani Horowitz (stage reading JCC Manhattan 2015, World Premiere 2019) ; At Night’s End for acclaimed Israeli playwright Motti Lerner (World Premiere at Knox College, directed by Neil Blackadder; Reading at The Lark, NYC, Workshop at Israeli Stage Boston directed by Melia Bensussen.) Dramaturg/Researcher: Posterity by Doug Wright (World Premiere at Atlantic Theater Company). Dramaturg: Paris, Actors! by Hamish Linklater (NY Stage and Film Powerhouse Theater Reading directed by Leigh Silverman; Yiddish dramaturgy/research Williamstown Theatre Festival Mainstage Reading Series directed by Jack O'Brien); He Who Laughs by Ian Cohen (JCC Theaterworks), HAGGADAH… (Witness Relocation /LaMama).
Yoni was the Theater Faculty for Brandeis University's BIMA High School Summer Arts Program 2013. He is a 2013 NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs SPARC (Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide) Grantee. During his 2012 SPARC Residency he created Home of the Brave: WWII Experiences in the Military and on the Homefront, based on oral histories of senior citizens at the Riverdale Y. Additional Directing credits: Evolutionism or Dammit We Took the Shortcut! (Manhattan Rep), Etta Sings for Change (Duplex), The Perfect Human 2009 (The 6th Obstruction) (14th Street Y), FAST and The Consistency of Flour (Drisha Institute/JCC); Yo Miss!... (LPAC); Crito and Na’im (The Lover) (S.E.E. Theater); Oleanna, The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in the Garden, and Swan Song (NYU Tisch) AD: Dog and Wolf (59E59); To Paint the Earth (NYMF/37Arts); Earthquake Chica (SPF/Theater Row) Contributing Artist: Knut er død: Hamsunjubileet 2008-10 (Teater NOR, Norway). He lead “Improv for Seniors” at the Riverdale Y. Yoni is a recipient of the John Dana Archbold Fellowship at the University of Oslo; Dorot Fellowship in Israel; and the Spielberg Fellowship in Jewish Theater Education. He is the associate editor of the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s catalogue “Plays of Jewish Interest” has written about the Origins of Jewish Theater and was the artistic consultant to both the Drisha Arts Fellowship and the inaugural JOFA Dinner/Exhibition “Putting Women Back in the Picture”. BFA Drama: NYU-Tisch/PHTS; M. Phil Ibsen Studies: U. Oslo. Member: Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.
Areas of Expertise
Language(s) spoken
English, Hebrew
Interested in freelance opportunities
Yes