Moshe Yassur

Moshe Yassur, born in Iasi, Romania was a child actor in the Pomul Verde [The Green Apple], the original Yiddish theatre founded by Avram Goldfadn in Iasi in 1876 and revived after WWII. At the same time he trained at the Conservatory and acted in the Romanian National Theatre in Iasi. In 1950, after immigration to Israel and learning Hebrew, he became part of the Hebrew theatre in Israel as actor, director, and teacher. Moshe has directed traditional and modern works in Yiddish at the Jewish State Theatre in Bucharest, premiered Howard Barker’s Judith, Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw, and The Belle of Amherst along with directing several plays by Ionesco at major Romanian theatres, acted at Castillo Theatre in Fred Newman’s Mr. Hirsch Died Yesterday, and directed Dan Friedman’s The Learning Play of Rabbi Levi Yitzhok, Son of Sara, of Berdichev. Having directed Waiting for Godot for New Yiddish Rep, originally in cooperation with Castillo in 2013, he is honored to have performed it at Portora Royal as part of the Beckett Festival in Enniskillen, NI and reprised as part of Origin’s 2014 First Irish Theatre Festival. Most recently he directed 2 By Wolf, for New Yiddish Rep.