Itay Tiran
director

Itay Tiran, studied classical piano in the Petach Tikva Municipal conservatory and later majored in music at Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts. In 1999 he enrolled in the Beit Zvi Acting School, where his exceptional talent was immediately apparent and gained him many scholarships and awards. 

He proceeded to replace his lifelong focus on music with the world of drama. Upon completing his studies he joined as actor at the Cameri Theater of Tel Aviv, he is now part of the ensemble at the Burgthetaer in Vienna. 

His directing debut was in 2010 with Georg Büchner's Woyzeck in which he also played the title role and earned him a well-deserved critical acclaim as a theater director. 

In the summer of 2013 Tiran directed and adapted the book Kleiner Mann, Was Nun? by Hans Fallada. The play, beautifully directed, earned him huge critical acclaim as Theater Director, the paper Haaretz even called Tiran the Laurence Olivier of Israeli Theater.

 

In 2015 he directed the open-air production Le nozze di Figaro at Akko Festival (Israeli Opera).

In 2018 for Theater Regensburg invited him to direct the world première Die Banalität der Liebe, opera telling about the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, music by Ella Milch-Sheriff and libretto by Savyon Liebrecht and at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv in 2019 he directed Salome.

 

In September 2019 he opened the season of the Burgtheater directing Vögel (All Birds) by Majdi Mouawad and a year later Mein Kampf by George Tabori. For the 2021 season, at Akademietheater, Moskitos by Lucy Kirkwood and in 2022 he directed Eurotrash by Christoph Kracht.

In 2023 he directed Shakespeare's Richard III and in 2025 Souls (by Roy Chen) at Gesher Theatre in Tel Aviv.