Sigal Avin

Sigal Avin (also spelled: Segahl Avin, Hebrew: סיגל אבין‎‎) is an American, Israeli writer and director.

Sigal Avin was born in Miami, Florida, and moved to Israel with her parents at the age of ten. When she was sixteen her parents moved back to the States, this time to California. Her father got an offer to manage the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles. Avin decided to stay in Israel and finish school.

Avin studied acting at the Yoram Lowenstein acting studio.

She wrote and directed her first play How to make a boy in 1999 for Haifa’s International children’s theatre festival.

In 2000 she wrote and directed Shmulik is a new friend for the same festival and won several prizes, among them, best show and best director. The story was about 3 kids who kidnap a grandmother with a banana because they don’t have one.

Her first play for adults, With a gun and a smile, a sad comedy about small people with small dreams, was chosen by the Israeli culture department to participate in the Australian International Playwrights Festival.

In 2002 Avin created a show called Freaks, inspired by the Todd Brownings film of the same name. The show had no words, was highly praised and was invited to festivals all over the world.

In 2003 Avin created and was show-runner of the acclaimed telenovela Game of life.

In 2004 Avin created and was show-runner of Michaella.

In 2005 Avin created and was show-runner of Telenovela Inc, which told her personal story about the struggle she had trying to write her first telenovela, and the hectic , surreal, life around that industry. The shows still air on Israeli TV in syndication.

Between 2005-2007 Avin was Artistic Manager and director of the young Habima Company (Israel’s national theatre), where she created Taxi, a play about lonely souls and the Israeli decadent night life and directed Marivoux’s The Dispute as a modern reality TV show.

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