Efim Rinenberg

Efim Rinenberg (יפים ריננברג; born 1979) is a director, actor, translator, playwright and acting teacher. Winner of the Yuri Stern Award (by Ministry of Aliyah and Integration) for a new director for 2018.

Biography
Efim was born in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, then in the Soviet Union, to a mother, Bertha Rinenberg, a journalist, film critic and poet, and an artist father. In 1990, he immigrated to Israel with his family and lived in the Israeli settlement of Ofra in the West Bank. Shortly before immigrating to Israel, his parents began to study religion. He studied at the High School of Art in Jerusalem, but dropped out at the age of 16 and continued his studies by correspondence. He later studied comparative literature and theater history at the Hebrew University. Rinenberg studied acting at the Mikro acting studio under the direction of Irina Gorelik.

In 2010 he joined the Malanka Theater in Tel Aviv.

Rinenberg has also worked as a director and acting teacher at the Sophie Moscovitch Studio, the Nurit Katzir Center in Jerusalem, a Jewish theater teacher at the Steinsaltz Institute, and an acting teacher and youth preparatory school director at the Nissan Nativ acting studio in Jerusalem. and director of the Espaclaria Theater. He works as a teacher at the Beit Zvi High School of Performing Arts.

Since 2022, artistic director of Mikro Theater in Jerusalem.