ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ROY ABRAMSOHN is a film, television and stage actor who is based and works in Los Angeles. Trained as a pianist since the age of six, he is a graduate of the Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music. At Oberlin, he began studying his other passion, theater; doing as many plays as possible. Since moving to Los Angeles in the early 1990's, Roy has been in over 200 television shows, commercials and films, and starred in ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW, a film that won awards at both Roger Ebert's film festival, EBERTFEST, and the SUNDANCE Film Festival. He has performed in hundreds of plays, including World Premieres at many major theaters in the United States as well as abroad, from Hong Kong to Cannes. His World Premiere of OLD WICKED SONGS, the 2-man Holocaust-themed drama about a young Jewish pianist, was a Pulitzer Finalist. West Coast Theaters include: The Oregon Shakespearean Festival (Ashland); Berkeley Rep, Portland Center Stage and the Vita Shakespeare Festival.
In Los Angeles he's worked at many theaters, including the Mark Taper Forum, Pasadena Playhouse, Falcon Theater (the two-man play TRUMBO and MASTER CLASS), the Colony Theater, Laguna Playhouse, Odyssey Theater, Fountain Theater (LEBENSRAUM), the Annenberg Theater in Palm Springs (SOUVENIR), Dezart Performs and the New American Theater (AS IS). He has done almost everything an actor can do in show business; from musical direction to melodrama, musicals to indie films, piano teaching and acting coaching, one-man shows and performing with orchestras. His last Youth Concert "hosting" was at Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has also performed with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center where he hosted a concert on Classical Romantic Music, and did a solo pre-show performance he created, titled ROMANTIC MAN! He plays “To Tell the Truth” television host “Garry Moore” in the Nixon-era, STARZ series “GASLIT”, with Julia Roberts and Sean Penn as Martha and John Mitchell.
Yonatan Esterkin is a Theater Director, Writer, Speaker, Professor and translator from Tel Aviv, Israel. After years of working as a journalist and theater critic for leading publications in Israel, Esterkin transitioned to directing and teaching both acting technique and theater history at Israel’s top acting schools - Beit Zvi, Nissan Nativ and Yoram Lewinstein. He later continued to a career in directing at the leading repertory public theatres in Israel such as the Haifa Theater (where he also headed the International Relations division and founded the Children Creating Theater program), The Cameri theater of Tel Aviv (Israel’s biggest theater) and the Habima National theatre, as well as The Yiddish theatre, which is a passion project for him, among others.