Dori Parnes is a theatre artist active in both music and translation. Born in 1963, he has composed music for numerous productions at all major theatres in Israel. Some of his most important musical compositions outside the theatre include “A Poet in New York”, a large-scale piece for orchestra, choir, and soloists; “A Small Hut”, children’s poems set to texts by Leah Goldberg; “Anacreon Sings Sweetly, Yes”, based on poems by E. E. Cummings; and the project “The Poet”, featuring texts by Hezy Leskly. He has maintained a long-term collaboration with Itay Tiran. Additionally, he has translated over 100 plays across all genres into Hebrew, from classics to contemporary drama. For his translations, he has received all major Israeli awards, including recently the Prize for Originality in Hebrew, notably for his modern translations of 32 Shakespeare plays. His non-theatrical translations include works by Nabokov, Gogol, and a selection of Flaubert’s letters.