Emanuella Amichai

Emanuella Amichai is a director and choreographer living and working in Tel Aviv. Her stage work combines performance, dance and visual art, working with performers and none performers in her projects.

Her recent stage works "The Neighbors Grief Is Greener" (2013) and "LyzistrataX" (2015) have been chosen by the European quality label Move Award for outstanding visual performance.

She is currently teaching acting, dance theatre and performance art at the theatre studies Department in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and in the dance department at "hakibutzim" college,and is delivering independent workshops on performance, acting, and movement. 

Graduated the multidisciplinary arts program at the Tel Aviv University, and currently studying her Masters degree in Folklore and Gender studies, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Emanuella was a member of the fringe committee and Head Artistic Producer for the Maabada theater in Jerusalem, where she initiated various events.

Her art works have been commissioned and granted by dance and theatre institutions such as the BI Arts UK Foundation, the Israeli Culture Institute, the Rabinovich Foundation, the Jerusalem Culture Season, and the Israel Festival among others and have been presented in Israel and abroad.

Since 2023, Emanuella has been the initiator and artistic director of “Anachnu"( meaning us in both Hebrew and Arabic) a multicultural theatre group at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that brings together Jewish and Palestinian students through creation and theatre practice.