American Actor, Actress to Direct Theater Workshop in Israel

The American Zionist Youth Foundation announced today the launching of a seven-week Summer Theater Workshop in Israel. The workshop will offer students, teachers and professionals of the theater an opportunity to develop their acting, directing and teaching skills while immersed in the theater and culture of another country. According to the announcement, leading Israel theatrical and motion picture personalities, drama critics and teachers will participate in the workshop lectures and seminars. Workshop members will also travel throughout Israel to study the various aspects of Israeli repertory, experimental and commercial theaters by attending rehearsals and performances. Classes will include acting techniques, scene study, speech, dance and a theater laboratory. The AZYF announcement said that Jack and Aviva Davidson will direct the workshop in coordination with the International Theater Institute of Israel. Jack Davidson, a graduate of Boston University’s Theater Department and former director of the New Theater Workshop for professionals in New York, played the leading role this season in the New York production of “AC/DC.” He can currently be seen in the motion picture, “Watermelon Man,” and last year played in Eugene O’Neill’s “Moon for the Misbegotten,” Mrs. Jack (Aviva) Davidson, a graduate of U.C.L.A. Theater Arts Department who has taught acting and directed plays in New York, studied in Israel for 10 years. On stage she starred in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” when the play was staged in Bermuda.