Bio
Yael Rasooly is a critically lauded visual theater director, actress, singer and puppeteer. Growing up between Toronto, Jerusalem and Seattle, Yael trained as a classical pianist and singer from an early age when she began touring Internationally.
She studied theater design in London at Saint Martin's college of art and design. Her distinct theatrical language, which she began developing at School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem and further formation in France, is based on a multidisciplinary approach, combining different forms of theater, puppetry, visual art and music.
Her shows include Paper Cut, winner of the Excellence Award at the New York International Fringe Festival, the House by the Lake, a musical cabaret for actresses, dolls and objects depicting three sisters in hiding during WWII that has been touring for 15 years, most recently at the Museum of Modern Art in Chicago(2025), Bon Voyage and other Lies, based on the stories and in collaboration with acclaimed author Etgar Keret, Silence Makes Perfect in collaboration with Internationally renowned classical pianist Amit Dolberg(Meitar Ensemble) premiered at Le Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes Charleville-Mézières, and her last creation, Edith and Me- the 3rd chapter in her trilogy shedding light on violence towards women, in collaboration with Norland Visual theater and numerous National theaters in France is currently touring extensively worldwide. EDITH and ME has recieved 7 awards at International festivals in Europe in 2025, including several GRAND PRIXs.
Alongside her prolific theatrical career, Rasooly performs as a singer with numerous ensembles and orchestras in Europe and North America. Since 2019 she is regularly invited to perform at the Neue Gallery in NYC, has been featured at BIRDLAND jazz club, La Chaufferie-Machine du Moulin Rouge, Le château de Versailles, the inauguration for Le HALLE DE LA MACHINE in Toulouse, to name a few. Her shows have been presented in over 35 countries and hundreds of festivals and theaters worldwide, garnering numerous International awards.
Yael is also committed to teaching and activism through art and has been invited as a guest professor for a semester at Trinity College, UConn and The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and gives masterclasses around the world, including ESNAM, UQAM, NYU, Berklee college of music, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Université du Québec à Montréal and many others.
Her performances received raving reviews from publications such as The New York Times, Télérama and The Guardian.
Winner of the Rosenblum Award for the Performing Arts 2022- " This award is Granted to director puppeteer and singer Yael Rasooly, creator of multi dimensional performance worlds, a rich visual theatrical language accompanied by an acoustic universe, that allow the spectators to activate their secret theater and feel the power of emotions such as fears, anxieties and hardships and in the process see the power that art has on the human soul."
"Inspired wackiness.”-
The New York Times
" Her brillianace really shines! A Singer, and actor, a puppeteer...A MUST SEE!"-
Scott Barbarino, NiteLifeExchange
