Avraham, Shalom Levi is an actor playwright and director. He graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and the Film Studies program at Hunter College in New York City. He established the first Israeli theater group in New York, where his plays “The Shirt” and “Tzvika the Soldier” have been running for years. In the last four years in Israel he has directed many of his plays, among them: “Coffee with Strawberries”, “The guards”, “Roof”, “Filoktetes” by Sofokles Etc. Avraham acted in a few feature films and T.V. series. He is currently has been working on a new show called “America my Love” and running the opening theater as the artistic director. Avraham Shalom Levi was born in Jerusalem in 1977 and from very early on he was identified by his teacher as exceptionally talented in the art of acting. At the age of nine he established an independent theatre group wrote and produced performances once a week in front of his class and dealt with, amongst other things, training the actors, casting and of course, daily rehearsals; the auditions and the rehearsals were held in the backyard. In high school he studied in the Performing Arts section in the democratic School for the arts, there, for the first time, he was exposed to the world of professional theatre and even acted himself in different school productions. As an adult, Avraham moved to New York and was accepted to the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institution. With the completion of his studies, Avraham continued to study film in Hunter College, New York, there, he discovered his writing abilities. During this time Avraham initiated the creation of the first Israeli theatre group in New York which produced his first play “The shirt “, this absurdist play dealt with the American fear after 9/11. He then produced his second play, “Tzvika the soldier” a one man show in which he also acted. Both productions were staged in the off Broadway theaters of New York and won great acclimation as well as heartfelt responses throughout the city. After his five years abroad Avraham returned to Israel and with his arrival he became one of the most ‘fertile’ makers in the creative field of the country. He published numerous plays and wrote a variety of scripts which were produced in a range of theaters among them, Coffee with Strawberries, The Guards and Roof. Avraham also directed the one women show “Now that the shack is on fire we can see the moonlight” in the Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa, as well as the play “Come Back To Us Philoctats” in the Inbal Theatre. As an actor Avraham participated in International films as well as many Israeli projects such as the Salt of the sea (France), On the Third Day a Moshe Ivgy film (Israel). In the last year Avraham took on the role of artistic director of the fringe theater in Holon, of which he was also one of the co-founders. Avraham teaches acting in a wide range of schools throughout Tel Aviv and is occupied with writing on a daily basis. He is working on his first book, writes poetry and recently finished writing a full length movie script. Avraham lives in Giv’atayim and is married to Rinat Tzemach, an artist and a multidisciplinary caretaker. In these days he is busy in rehearsals for two plays written and directed by him, “Candles” and “America My Love”. Up until now Avraham wrote many other plays not yet staged, amongst them Hagibda the Queen, Awaken, Candles, Man Woman, On That Day, Everything is White White, America my love.