{{COI|date=August 2022}} {{short description|Israeli playwright and screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Shmuel Hasfari | native_name ={{Script/Hebrew|שמואל הספרי}} | native_name_lang = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|8|26}} | birth_place = Ramat Gan, Israel | nationality = | other_names = | citizenship = Israeli | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | years_active = | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | title = | term = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | awards = Ophir Award | module = | website = {{URL|1=http://www.hasfari.net|2=www.hasfari.net}} | footnotes = }} '''Shmuel Hasfari''' ({{Langx|he|שמואל הספרי}}; born 26 August 1954) is an Israeli playwright and screenwriter. He was artistic director of the Cameri Theatre.
==Biography== Shmuel Hasfari was born in Ramat Gan to Holocaust survivor parents from Poland; theirs was a religious family.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} He began theater studies at Tel Aviv University but left to join an alternative theater company that won first prize at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre in 1982.<ref>[http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=115 Shmuel Hasfari, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309151827/http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=115 |date=2008-03-09 }} </ref> Hasfari is married to actress and writer Hanna Azoulay Hasfari. They have three sons and live in Tel Aviv.
==Plays== His works include ''Kiddush'', ''Shivaa'', ''Hametz'', ''Acordionim'', ''Tashmad'' and ''Milano''. ''Huppah Shchorah'' (Black Wedding Canopy) was performed in 1981 at the Acco Festival.
==Awards and recognition== Hasfari is considered one of Israel's leading playwrights. He won an Ophir Award for best director for his 1994 film, ''Sh'Chur''. It was also the 1994 official Israeli submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
His play, ''Isha. Ba-al. Bayit (The Master of the House)'' won a 2003 Award for Best Play in Israel,{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}. While still running at the Cameri Theater, it had its American premiere at the Laguna Playhouse in March 2007, directed by Richard Stein.
== Personal life == Azoulay-Hasfari is married to the actress and screenwriter Hannah Azoulay-Hasfari. They have three children together.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-07-17 |title=הוצתו כלי הרכב של שמואל וחנה אזולאי-הספרי |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3920948,00.html |access-date=2019-07-01 |website=ynet |language=he}}</ref>
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