David Mandelbaum

David Mandelbaum has been producing and acting in experimental theater in New York for over 35 years. He has worked at La Mama, etc., Theater For The New City, The Common Basis Theater and numerous others. In 2007, he and Amy Coleman founded the New Yiddish Rep and premiered its first show, an adaptation of the Holocaust classic, Yosl Rakover Speaks To G-d, which has since been showcased in Montreal, Rome, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem. Under David’s leadership, the New Yiddish Rep has presented original films, concerts, performance art, and art exhibitions, and has workshopped and developed The Essence: A Yiddish Theater Dim Sum and The Big Bupkis: The Complete Gentile’s Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville.