Dr. Naphtaly Shem Tov âøñä òáøéú

Updated: August 2008

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Personal

Telephone Tel: 972-9-778-1279
Fax Fax: 972-9-778-0660
Email E-mail: naphtalysh@openu.ac.il

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Education

2000 B.A. (cum laude), Community-Based Theater, Theater Department, Tel-Aviv University
2001 Theater Teaching Certificate, School of Education, Tel-Aviv University
2008 Ph.D (direct Ph.D. track), Theatre Department, Tel-Aviv University.

Dissertation: Akko Festival as aSite of Struggle in the Theatrical and Social Fields, 1980-2004.

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Courses

1996-1997 Acting Course, given by Amir Orian, The Room Theater, Tel-Aviv

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Professional Experience

1998-1999 Satirical column in Teza, Tel-Aviv University's student paper
1998-1999 Director, Community-Based Youth Theater, Neve-Eliezer, Tel-Aviv
2000 Co-Director, Community-Based Theatre for Mentally Retarded Adults, Holon
2000 Adapted Anna, Hanna and Johanna, a monodrama, for The Teatronetto Festival, The Habimah Theater, Tel-Aviv
2000-2002 Director, Community-Based Theatre for Adults, Kiryat-Ono 
2001-2003 Instructor, The Theater Unit, The School for the Arts, Ashkelon
2001-2002 Teaching Assistant, Theater Department, Tel-Aviv University
2002 - Teaching, Social Theatre Unit, Theatre Department, Haifa University
2005 - Developing and teaching courses on Israeli Theater for M.A. and B.A. (with Prof. Dan Urian), The Open University of Israel
2005-2007 Instructor, The Unit for Theater Teaching, School of Education,  Tel-Aviv University
2006 - Pedagogic Counselor, The Dance-Theatre Unit, The Kibbutz College of Education, Tel-Aviv
2006-2007 Instructor, Theatre track, Blich High School, Ramat-Gan

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Academic Awards

1998 - 2006 ISEF Scholarship, B.A. and Ph.D. degrees 
1998-1999 Dean's List, Faculty of Arts, Tel-Aviv University
2001-2003 The Nathan Rotenstreich Scholarship for Outstanding Ph.D. Candidates, Israel Council for Higher Education.

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Areas of Interest

  • Israeli Theatre
  • Community Theatre
  • Culture Studies
  • Ethnicity
  • Arab-Jewish Dialogue and Coexistence

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Membership in Organizations

2000 - Member, Theater Repertoire Committee, The Israeli Association of Community Centers, Ministry of Education (Sal Tarbut Artzi)
2006 - Member, Identity and Class Research-Group, The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
2006 - Member, Public policy and muliticulturism Research-Group, The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem

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Conference Presentations

2003 Reception and Criticism: Akko Festival 1980-1982, Mainstream and Fringe, Oranim College
2004 What is being Celebrated and How at the Akko Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre: Basic Questions about Alternative Theater: Marking 25 years of the Akko Festival, Akko, Israel
2004 The Rules of Improvisation as Guiding Principles towards A Multicultural Society in Israel, The Third Conference for Arts Education, Tel-Aviv University
2007 The exclusion and inclusion’s mechanisms of the Akko Festival art management, Between the political to the professional: how is a political action possible? Workshop of young researchers, Van Leer Institution Jerusalem
2008

Here? Now? Love? A memory performance of Co-Narrative between Mizrahi and Palestinians: A Community Theatre of Jewish and Arabs in Ramla”
Motar Conference 17th Sixty Years for Israel: Cultures Junctions in Israel and their Expressions in Arts.
Arts faculty, Tel Aviv University, February 12-13, 2008

2008 "Politics and Ideology in Children Theatre", The International Conference of Children and Youth Theatre: Theory and Practice,
Haifa University, March 16-18th 2008
2008 "Here? Now? Love? A Co-Narrative between Mizrahi and Palestinian: A Community Theatre of Jews and Arabs in Ramla", 24th Annual AIS Conference: Israel 2008 - 60 years after 1948 Are the Narratives Converging?
New York University, May 19-21th 2008

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Publications

Shem Tov, N. (2002). Community theatre: Between protest,establishment and subversion, Ha-Kivun Mizrah, 4: 89-92 (Hebrew).
Shem Tov, N. and Mizrahi-Shapira, O. (2002). How to observe community theatre, Teatron, 9, 34-37 (Hebrew).
Shem Tov, N. with Oshrat Mizrahi-Shapira (2003). The other in the community theatre festival, Bama, 170: 76-81 (Hebrew).
Shem Tov, N. (2005). Breaking down borders: Criticism, “Small-Bama” festival, Teatron, 14: 50-52 (Hebrew).
Shem Tov, N. (2005). 'My father is a hero' and 'Looking for Fanon' (two stories), Moznayim, 29, 44-46 (Hebrew).
Shem Tov, N. (2007). The Israeli theatre conquers India, Iton 77, 320-321, 20-22 (Hebrew).
Shem Tov, N. (co-editor) (2007). Young Mizrahis: Identity, Anthology of young Mizrahi writers, Tel-Aviv: Am-Oved (Hebrew).

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