Nicole Raphael

Jewish Educator/Actor/Artistic Director and Founder of The Mesaper Theatre

130 W. 79th st. #15E

New York, NY 10024

Phone/Fax 646-456-8881/212-799-1663
nicolehraphael@aol.com
www.themesapertheatre.org

Nicole Raphael strives to produce the “simchas” and struggles of the Jewish experience on stage. She also uses the arts as a tool for children to embrace Jewish Learning. Under the auspices of The Mesaper Theatre, she has led Jewish themed theatre workshops, classes and readings at Manhattan Day School, Ramaz Lower School and The Heschel School in NYC.

She currently tours With Dream Awakened Eyes written by Ellen W. Kaplan, a solo performance piece based on Charlotte Salomon’s autobiographical collection of over 1000 small paintings entitled Life? Or Theatre? This one-hour solo performance piece includes recorded music and a media design which incorporates slides of Salomon’s paintings into the fabric of the play. Nicole Raphael performs over half a dozen roles, taking the audience through an exciting and powerful story of Salomon’s life, chronicling the suicides of all her maternal family members, through her life as a young impassioned artist in Berlin, and leading up to her imprisonment and death in Auschwitz.

For booking information visit:
www.themesapertheatre.org
nicolehraphael@aol.com

IN DEVELOPEMENT:
She is also developing a solo performance entitled Papa and the Princess, a Chassidic tale based on her ancestor, Dr. Pesach Friedman and The Holy Rhiziner Rebbe.