Gabriel Emanuel
Gabriel Emanuel is a Canadian born playwright, poet and singer/songwriter. In 1978 he co-founded with Director Howard Rypp the Nephesh Theatre Company of Toronto, Canada’s only professional Jewish Theatre company. The company later relocated to Israel where it continues to have an impact on Israeli and international audiences. His most popular play, “EINSTEIN”, which premiered in Toronto in 1985, has been translated into a dozen languages and continues to be performed around the world. “THE GOLEM OF PRAGUE”, premiered at the International Children’s Theatre festival in Haifa, Israel in April, 2008. “MR. BEGIN”, about the controversial life of Israeli Prime Minister, Menahem Begin, premiered at the Menahem Begin Center in Jerusalem on July 18, 2013. In 2018 “Mark Twain Live in Bombay” premiered at Mumbai’s Prithvi Theatre and has continued to tour India based out of Kolkata.
The President's Prize awarded by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett of Israel to Gabriel Emanuel for his play, “MR.BEGIN”.
Jerusalem, 2022.
Einstein
EINSTEIN virtually from the day it opened at Toronto Workshop Productions in 1985, starring the late Canadian actor Peter Boretski and directed by Jack Blum, Einstein has been playing in some theatre or country around the world. After touring Canada from coast to coast, the play appeared at Israel’s national Habima Theatre (starring Misha Asharov, director Howard Rypp), in several of the United States starring Chris Brittain, in Mexico where actor Patricio Castillo won an award for Best Actor (director Bruno Schwebel), Chile (starring Nisim Sharim Paz), Brazil (Carlos Palma winning an award for Best Actor), Portugal (Fernando Jorge Lopes) and has enjoyed other productions in Argentina, Spain, India, Pakistan, Dubai and more. In 2008, Einstein was remounted by the Nephesh Theatre Company in Israel starring Victor Attar, directed by Howard Rypp. The play toured at the La Mama Theatre in New York City, (“Einstein triumphed at La Mama, filled with wonderful irony”), Winnipeg’s Jewish Theatre and made several other stops in North America. Also, in 2008, Carlos Palma and the ACP theatre company of Brazil celebrated 10 years of performing Einstein! In 2014, India’s famed Naseeruddin Shah starred in the Motley Theatre Group’s production of “Einstein” at the Prithvi Theatre of New Delhi. The play was chosen by critics as the first of the 5 best new plays to appear in 2014 and has been remounted several times most recently in 2025. The 20th anniversary of “Einstein” starring Fernando Jorge Lopes was also celebrated at Teatro Extremo of Lisbon in 2025!
Plays
Plays written by Gabriel Emanuel
