Yehezkel Lazarov

Yehezkel Lazarov was born in 1974 in Tel Aviv.

He moved with his family to Givatayim at age 5. He began step dancing in 1982 with Yankele Kalusky, and performed in festivals, musicals and television programs. Lazarov was a member of the Neuri Givatayim youth dance company and studied dance at Thelma Yellin High School, but did not graduate. In 1991, at age 17, he began choreographing for youth companies and entertainment teams in hotels in Tel Aviv. He was drafted in 1992 and served in the Air Force Entertainment Ensemble until his discharge in 1993.
In 1993, Lazarov was admitted to the Batsheva Ensemble and later to the Company, where he danced until 1997. He performed in several works including Pandora’s Garage (1993), Video Dance (1995), and Exhaustion from Dreamt Love (1996).

In 1997, he moved to London for a year of theater studies in the Actors Center in London and upon his return began acting in films and television shows. His roles included Forbidden Love and Florentine (1997), Woman in Gray (1999), The Game of Truth and False (2005), A Touch Away (2007), and Five Men and a Wedding (2008). In 2009, he wrote and directed a short film called Lashabiya.
In 2001 Lazarov joined Gesher Theater, where he played in Midsummer Night’s Dream (2001), The Slave, The Marriage of Figaro (2004), and others.  He also choreographed for several plays, including The Threepenny Opera (2002), and Variations for Theater and Orchestra (2005). In 2006 he wrote and directed a one-person play called Hezi for Gesher Theater, and recently adapted and directed Falling out of Time, based on David Grossman’s novel (2014).

In 2003, Lazarov was the artistic director of the IntimaDance Festival, in 2009 he initiated and curated the Conflict in Motion video-dance exhibition, and in 2010 he initiated, curated and directed Bikurei Haitim Center’s ‘Boidem’ Festival. Lazarov has been teaching in the Tel Aviv Academy of Performing Arts. In 2014, he initiated the establishment of the Studio Ankori High School in Jaffa, which promotes a multidisciplinary approach to art.
In 2002, Lazarov won the Israeli Theater awards for Best Promising Actor and for Choreography (2006 & 2012).