Atar Hadari
Translator, Film/theatre Journalist and Playwright
Hebden Bridge, United Kingdom
April 2022
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About Atar
Atar Hadari trained as an actor at University of East Anglia before studying playwrighting with Derek Walcott at Boston University. His plays have won awards from the BBC, Arts Council of England, National Foundation of Jewish Culture (New York), European Association of Jewish Culture (Brussels) and the RSC, where he was Young Writer in Residence. Plays have been staged at Finborough Theatre, Wimbledon Studio Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and West Yorkshire Playhouse. The sit com pilot ‘Strictly Kosher’ won an Alfred Bradley award from the BBC. “Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of H. N. Bialik” (Syracuse University Press) was a finalist for the American Literary Translators’ Association Award, his first poetry collection “Rembrandt’s Bible” published by Indigo Dreams. The Pen Translates award winning “Lives of the Dead: Collected Poems of Hanoch Levin” appeared from Arc Publications in 2018. A radical adaptation of Sholem Asch’s ‘God of Vengeance’ was commissioned by the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, funded by the European Foundation of Jewish Culture (Brussels) and produced by Up Theatre, Manhattan. University of Manchester commissioned the sequence of poems ‘Gethsemane Suite’ in response to the fragment of the gospel of John which was part of their 50 Jewish Objects project. He was subsequently awarded a £3000 grant by the Authors Foundation to complete the collection of poems ‘Gethsemane’ forthcoming from Shearsman. His plays have been published in many journals including Prism International (Canada), the Jewish Quarterly, Kenyon Review and Mercurian Review. He was commissioned to produce translations of Hebrew musical lyrics by a Broadway producer and had his own song lyrics performed at Crazy Coq theatre in London and the Iris Theatre.
Unique traits: Verse playwright and lyricist.
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27 Songs by Robert Johnson Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama When a young record executive travels to Mississippi to find the heir to RobertJohnson's royalties, a mother makes the case that her son is the musician's onlyson, but as the line between truth and fiction begins to blur only Robert himselfcan set the record straight about his heir and how he died.Pages
Awards
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BBC Alfred Bradley Award
(2000)
Education
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California State University - Los Angeles
(1991-1992)
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