Neta Weiner is a musician, actor, and director based in Jaffa and Boston. He is the co-founder and lead singer of System Ali, a multilingual Jewish-Arab Hip-Hop project. Weiner is also the artistic director of the Beit System Ali social educational movement. He has created several critically acclaimed and award-winning stage works produced for festivals and significant theaters worldwide. Additionally, he has appeared in several films and television shows as an actor. As a musician, he wrote the soundtrack for the TV teen series ›Madrasa‹. In 2023, Weiner released his second solo album, ›Pinui Binui‹ written in Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, and English. Weiner teaches at the Dance, Theatre, and Performance Department at Tufts University and is a guest scholar at Brandeis University.
Samira Saraya is an Israeli-Palestinian film, television, and theatre actress, filmmaker, poet, rapper, and spoken-word artist. In her early twenties, the LGBTQ activist began performing as a drag king. For her debut short film »Polygraph«, which centres on an openly lesbian Arab character, the trained theatre and film director won the award for best screenplay at TLVFest 2018.
Neta Weiner and Samira Saraya are awarded the 2024 co-creation residency in Berlin, Germany, and Tel Aviv, Israel, under which they collaborate with Berlin-based Hoyah.
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