Maya Arad Yasur

Maya Arad Yasur (; born 1976) is an Israeli playwright. Yasur's works have been produced worldwide and are published in Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew and Polish. She is the recipient of the Theatertreffen's Stückemarkt prize 2018. Yasur is known for her knotty and complex form of fractured narratives.
Early life.
Yasur was born in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan and went to high school in Tel-Aviv, majoring in Film and Photography, she went on to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where she studied Theatre, Communication and Journalism studies. She holds a Master's degree in dramaturgy from the University of Amsterdam where she graduated with distinction.
Career.
Yasur's plays have been staged and publicly read in various theatres in Israel, France, the UK, Germany, Austria, Norway, Finland and the U.S. Yasur worked as the dramaturg on several performances by Serbian-Dutch theatre-maker Sanja Mitrović and was the dramaturg of the series Het Beloofde Feest by the Dutch theatre-maker . Her play "Amsterdam" received its English language premier at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in 2019, produced by the Actors Touring Company, an extensive UK tour followed. Lyn Gardner admired the bravado of the fractured structure which mixed thriller with a multitude of voices and likened the use of unstable perspectives to Prebble's "A Very Expensive Poison."