, Paris 1991 Zohar started directing in Paris in 1978. He completed a doctorate on the theme of the collective and
Universal (metaphysics) Kibbutz Theatre, presented it at the University of Paris VIII, where he was assistant professor from 1980 to 1985. He has published 150 articles in the field of theater and academic journals in English, French,
Slovene language, German language and Hebrew. His university writings are also about
Peter Brook,
Constantin Stanislavski,
Jerzy Grotowski,
Augusto Boal,
Martin Buber,
Aaron David Gordon and
Mikhaël Aïvanhov who profoundly influenced theater. Until 2017 he has directed 75 plays in Israel, Europe, Canada, Africa and Asia. He has written and directed on stage his 46 original plays in Hebrew, and also plays by
Hanoch Levin,
Joshua Sobol,
S. Ansky etc. He has directed modern plays written by
Peter Brook,
Birago Diop,
Farid al-Din Attar,
Jean-Claude Carrière,
Sławomir Mrożek,
Steven Soderbergh,
John Hughes (filmmaker) etc. He has directed classic plays by
Molière,
Shakespeare,
Marivaux,
Henrik Ibsen and
George Bernard Shaw etc. His
Technion theater takes part in festivals in Europe, Canada and Israel. He teaches stage
aesthetics, playwriting and actor performance in Paris, Israel, Minsk and
India. He was a
dramaturg at the
Habima Theatre in 1989–1990 and the Haifa Municipal Theatre in 1995–1997. He has conducted
Judeo-
Arab collaborative projects by means of art and is among the founders of the
Al-Midan Theater in Haifa in 1994. Between 1993 and 1999 he was vice-president of the International Association of University Theatre (IUTA), based in the
University of Liège, Belgium, and honorary member in 2005; From 1995 he is a visiting professor at HEC, and from 1997 Full Professor at the University of Paris VIII. In 1993, he directed
Season of Migration to the North the novel by Sudanese writer
Tayeb Salih, with the participation of
Mohammad Bakri, a
Palestinian-Israeli actor who has received the award for best actor at the
Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre in
Acre. With his actor, Bakri, he directed the "Bakri Monologue" in French, Arabic and Hebrew and appeared with Bakri on stage in Paris, at the
Boris Vian Hall Theatre of Paris-
Villette, on the national stage of
Cergy-Pontoise,
Lille, at the Peace Festival in
Brussels and in other countries. From 2002 he played the leading role of
Prospero in
The Tempest in the theater of Béatrice Brout, and the
Earl of Northumberland in
Richard II, by Shakespeare, and interpreted texts of
Victor Hugo and other writers in France. In 2006 he founded his own theatre company, 'Compagnie Ouriel Zohar' in Paris, with
An Enemy of the People by
Henrik Ibsen, first performed in Paris, then in
Frejus and
Besançon, in
Liege, Belgium, in
Minsk,
Belarus, in
Valleyfield Canada and
Porto Heli, Greece. In 2010 he directed "
Seraphita", his adaptation of an 1834 novel by
Honoré de Balzac, performed in Paris at the "Theatre de l'
Ile Saint-Louis", Brussels, Greece,
Republic of Congo, in 2012 performed at the
Maison de Balzac in Paris, and also in Switzerland, Israel, Istanbul and "Theatre
Darius Milhaud" in Paris. In 2012 his theater went to
Saint Petersburg with his play "Invisible Garment". In 2014 his theater went to
India with his 2 shows: "Message to Materialistes" and "Seraphita". His directing in Hebrew of Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" was accorded the best actor award at the Festival of
Benevento, Italy in 2009. From 2007, after being appointed international judge of international competitions in Europe University Theatre, Paris, Minsk, Moscow, etc., he presented master classes for staging and acting in festivals in Europe. In 2014, in India he gave his workshops "Medical Theater" for everybody, specially in
Auroville. Among his most famous students,
Scandar Copti, director and screenwriter of
Ajami won 5
Ophir Awards 2009, including the best film award in Israel and was nominated for an
Oscar of the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in Los Angeles in 2009. Zohar has published 14 books in Hebrew and 19 in French, 5 in English, one in German and one in French with his deceased wife Martine Bargas-Zohar: "My life in Israel in the light of the
stone pine" In 2013 was elected as parliament member of
The Israeli Palestinian Confederation (IPC) In 2015 he directed his play "L'Initiation du Ciel" in French, in
Switzerland,
Brussels, Paris,
Aix en Provence and
Frejus. In 2017 he directed his play "Das Unsichtbare Kleidungsstück" (The Invisible Garment) to the German community in Frejus. In 2018, lecturer at the
Moscow State University on the subject: "Robotics, Disadvantages and Benefits". In 2019, lecturer at the
University of Texas at Austin on the subject: "Eastern Humor as the Basis of Human Wisdom." In 2019 he directed his play "Our Father Who" in English, to the English community in the city of
Fréjus. In 2022 - 2024 his play "The Boy Who Knows How to Fly" is presented in the Spanish language in
Colombia in the cities of
Villa de Leyva,
Bogotá and
Cartagena (Colombia). ==Books==