Noam Meiri
Israeli theater artist, actor, director and acting teacher
Noam Meiri (Hebrew: נעם מאירי; born March 27, 1958) is an Israeli theater artist, actor, director and acting teacher. Meiri is a co-founder of the Tel Aviv Haguf Theater (Theater of the Body) School and Stage for Physical theatre, inspired by the method of Jacques Lecoq. Since 1999 he has served as a professor of Physical Theater at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany.
Biography
Noam Meiri was raised in Ramat Gan. He studied at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts with teachers Suheil Haddad and Irit Wager, and at Bat-Dor Dance Company's School. Meiri graduated with a B.A from Tel Aviv University's Education School and Theater Department (1980-1984). He studied at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (1984-1986) and completed his education in the Alexander technique and the Laban Movement Analysis method. H
Theater and teaching career
In 1987 Meiri co-founded the theater troupe Faubourg Teatron, along with Rivi Feldmesser-Yaron and Walter Anichoffer (Austria). The troupe performed its play, Nashim BaPark (Women in the Park) at the Tzavta Theater in Tel Aviv, as well as in the Israeli Fringe Theater Festival in Acco and at the Comic Theater Festival in Salzburg, Austria. In 1988 he co-created the cabaret HaMofa shel Rapunzel (Rapunzel's Show), with Rivi Feldmesser-Yaron, Gal Friedman and Gail Hareven.
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