Cast Announced for Israeli Stage's MAKE MY HEART FLUTTER on 11/2

An all-star, award-winning cast comes together to celebrate Israeli Stage's Fourth Birthday on November 2nd in Hanoch Levin's Make My Heart Flutter, directed by Israeli Stage's Founder Guy Ben-Aharon. The public performance will be followed by a 5PM private performance that will be held as a part of Israeli Stage's Inaugural Sabra Award Benefit honoring Arts Philanthropist Ted Cutler and President Lee Pelton of Emerson College.

MAKE MY HEART FLUTTER: Love and its crushing disappointments are at the center of Hanoch Levin's Make My Heart Flutter, a romantic comedy without the romance. Full of laughter and irony, the play touchingly portrays our desires, and our potentially missing out on life, without even knowing it.

MAKE MY HEART FLUTTER

November 2nd, 2014 at 2PM

Goethe Institut Boston | 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116

Tickets: $25 Reserved Seating | $15 General Admission

More info at: http://www.israelistage.com/event/make-my-heart-flutter/

ISRAELI STAGE has been profiled in Ha'aretz/The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe (2012 & 2014), The Improper Bostonian, The Jewish Advocate, The Jewish Journal and Yediot for the unique work they do to build cultural bridges between the United States and Israel.

HANOCH LEVIN | PLAYWRIGHT one of Israel's leading dramatists was born in Tel Aviv and studied philosophy and literature at Tel Aviv University. At first he wrote poetry, but later concentrated on theater. He became resident playwright of the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and also worked with Habima, Israel's national theater. Levin wrote fifty plays; his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satiric cabarets, most of which he directed himself. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994.

INAUGURAL SABRA AWARD HONOREES:

Dedicated to excellence in cultural bridging and the arts...

TED CUTLER is an internationally recognized innovator and a leader in Boston's civic and philanthropic communities, most notably in the fields of education, the performing arts, and health care.

LEE PELTON is the 12th President of Emerson College in Boston. He is a nationally and internationally known speaker and writer on the value of a liberal education and the importance of leadership development, civic engagement and diversity in higher education.

REMO AIRALDI* | JUDGE LAMKA has appeared in over sixty roles at the American Repertory Theater, including Master Sunflower in Lilly's Revenge, Schultz in Cabaret, Bumble in Oliver Twist (also at Theatre for a New Audience and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Arlequin in Island of Slaves (IRNE Award-Outstanding Actor), McCann in The Birthday Party and Pozzo in Waiting for Godot. Other credits: Six productions with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, including All's Well That Ends Well, Two Gentlemen of Verona and this Summer's Twelfth Night, Sweeney Todd at Lyric Stage, The Hound of the Baskervilles at Central Square Theater, Camino Real, Eight by Tenn and No Exit at Hartford Stage, and productions at La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Cirque du Soleil, American Conservatory Theater, Walnut Street Theatre, Prince Music Theater, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Serious Fun Festival, Moscow Art Theatre, and Taipei International Arts Festival. He is a Lecturer in Dramatic Arts at Harvard University and was the Monan Professor in Theatre Arts at Boston College. Israeli Stage: Debut.

NANCY CARROLL* | SO-SO Broadway: Present Laughter (Roundabout Theatre); International: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Big Maggie (Druid Theatre, Ireland); Regional: The Seagull, Good People ,The Luck of the Irish, Prelude to a Kiss, Brendan, The Rose Tattoo, Dead End (Huntington Theatre); Rapture Blister Burn (Geffen Playhouse, LA); Our Town, She Loves Me (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Year of Magical Thinking (Lyric Stage); 4000 Miles, Trad, North Shore Fish, Breath of Life, Doubt, Happy Days, My Old Lady, (Gloucester Stage); The Clean House, Frozen, Sweeney Todd, Kindertransport (New Repertory); Other Desert Cities, The Savannah Disputation, The Women, Company, A Man Of No Importance (Speakeasy Stage);. Elliot Norton Awards Present Laughter, Brendan, Bailegangaire. Israeli Stage: Debut.

JEREMIAH KISSEL* | PSHONIAK Jeremiah Kissel* is a thirty year veteran of Boston's professional theaters and has played leading roles for The Huntington, American Repertory Theater, Merrimack Rep, as well as The Lyric Stage, New Rep, Commonwealth Shakespeare and various out of town companies when they passed through Boston. He has won several Norton and IRNE awards, and is the recipient of Boston's highest theater honor, the 2003 Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. Israeli Stage: To the End of the Land, Ulysses on Bottles

ADRIANNE KRSTANSKY* | LA-LA-LA-LA Performing credits include Paradise Lost, Britannicus and Ubu Rock at the American Repertory Theater; Tribes, Body Awareness and Snakebit at Speakeasy Stage Company; Imaging Madoff, On the Verge, Holiday Memories, Three Viewings, 2. 5 Minute Ride and Frozen at New Repertory Theater; Legally Dead and Gary at Boston Playwrights Theater; Closer at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at The Vineyard Playhouse among others. She worked extensively in Chicago, regionally and Off-Broadway, at the Steppenwolf Theater and Public Theater in NYC. She is an Associate Professor of Theater Arts at Brandeis University. Israeli Stage: Debut.

OMAR ROBINSON* | SUITOR Omar received a BA in Acting and Television/Video Production from Emerson College. Regional credits include Death of a Salesman, Superior Donuts (Lyric Stage) Henry VIII, Romeo & Juliet, Pericles, Twelfth Night (ASP), Hamlet (Bay Colony Shakespeare Company), Fire on Earth (Fresh Ink), Zombie Double Feature (New Exhibition Room), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Summer Festival Theater), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Macbeth (Shakespeare NOW!), Art (Parish Players Theatre). Israeli Stage: Debut.