1. Daniel Efrat is an Israeli actor, theatre director, and translator.
18 Facts About Daniel Efrat
1. 2.
Daniel Efrat trained at Beit Zvi, where he first began translating, before joining the Beit Lessin Theater youth company.
3.
Daniel Efrat has won various awards in Israel for his translation and direction, as well as acting awards.
4.
Daniel Efrat was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 4 August 1982, to musician Ovad Efrat and scholar Daphna Efrat nee Tamir.
5.
Daniel Efrat grew up with a relatively liberal family, though he first read Spring Awakening at home when he was fourteen and identified with its themes of stifled adolescence.
6.
Daniel Efrat has reflected that "there was no real musical theater in Israel when [he] was growing up", so instead he dreamed about it.
7.
Daniel Efrat had not wanted to enlist personally, and his parents reacted badly to this; his father had been in the elite Shayetet 13.
8.
Daniel Efrat attended the Tel Aviv School of Arts, Thelma Yellin School of Arts and Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts, where he earned an MA and received awards for outstanding first-year student and outstanding graduating student.
9.
Daniel Efrat received the outstanding graduate award from Thelma Yellin.
10.
Daniel Efrat began translating while at Beit Zvi, saying that he really wanted to perform The Rocky Horror Show for his senior project in 2002, but no Hebrew translation existed for it, so he did it himself.
11.
Daniel Efrat went on to act in several other Levitan films.
12.
Daniel Efrat then played lead role Menni in the Yair Hochner film Yeladim Tovim, a film about rent boys.
13.
Daniel Efrat won the Best Actor award at the 2006 Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival for the film.
14.
Daniel Efrat stayed in the theatre and began translating, adapting, and directing.
15.
In 2013, Daniel Efrat translated The Rocky Horror Show for its commercial Israeli debut, featuring Lake Rodberg and third-year students of the Yoram Lowenstein acting studio, in Tel Aviv.
16.
Daniel Efrat had first directed the original musical in 2013; musician Ohad Hitman approached director Daniel Efrat and artistic director Uri Paster with his Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance dissertation music, hoping to create a musical.
17.
Daniel Efrat translated Animal Farm for its premiere as a musical adaptation in 2015.
18.
Daniel Efrat has written pop songs, including "Dai La" with Marta Gomez for Roni Dalumi's 2010 debut album.