STAV PALTI NEGEV (She/ her/ hers) is an Israeli writer and playwright. Her play “Salim Salim,” received the Best Play award at the 2014 Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre and ran for two years at Tmuna Theater in Tel-Aviv, 2015 – 2017. In 2021 it won The Woodward International Playwriting Prize and it will receive its English language premiere as part of the UNH Theatre and Dance’s 2021/22 season. Her play “Elsewhere: a play for an audience of one” premiered at the Acco Festival in October 2016, in 2018 Stav developed a virtual reality (VR) adaption of the play in collaboration with The Public Theater, and in 2019 it received a second adaption as an audio play. Stav’s work has been developed in the United States through Atlantic Theater Company, The Public Theater, MacDowell, The...
STAV PALTI NEGEV (She/ her/ hers) is an Israeli writer and playwright. Her play “Salim Salim,” received the Best Play award at the 2014 Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre and ran for two years at Tmuna Theater in Tel-Aviv, 2015 – 2017. In 2021 it won The Woodward International Playwriting Prize and it will receive its English language premiere as part of the UNH Theatre and Dance’s 2021/22 season. Her play “Elsewhere: a play for an audience of one” premiered at the Acco Festival in October 2016, in 2018 Stav developed a virtual reality (VR) adaption of the play in collaboration with The Public Theater, and in 2019 it received a second adaption as an audio play. Stav’s work has been developed in the United States through Atlantic Theater Company, The Public Theater, MacDowell, The Lark, The Flea Theater, New York Live Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Orchard Project, and The 14th Street Y, among others. Her plays have received productions with the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, Tmuna Theater (Tel-Aviv), and Nazareth Theater. Stav is a 2017 alumna of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, a 2015/2017 HaPais Council for the Arts Artist award recipient, a 2016/2019 Asylum Arts development award recipient, and a member of the Middle Eastern American Writers Lab at The Lark in New York City. She is currently working on a script for a new Polish-Israeli film co-production and on a new play about her personal immigration story. Stav holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in Theater Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.