Sinai Peter (director and dramaturg) is an accomplished theater director, producer, educator and actor who’s worked for over half a century in Israel, Europe and the US. Together with The San Francisco Mime Troupe team, he co-wrote and toured with the play Seeing Double which won OBIE Award in 1990. Since that time, he’s served as Artistic Director of Neve Zedek Theater in Tel Aviv, and the Haifa Municipal Theatre where he has directed The Swan, Clearing, The Graduate, Chimps, The Resistible Rise of Arturo UI, Transfer, Machinal, and Unsung Heroes, a project based on civilians experience during the Lebanese war. Other Israeli credits of note include A Man's a Man at the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem, Oved Shabbat (The Return) by Hanna Eady and Edward Mast at the Al Midan Theater before its Washington DC premiere in  2017 at Mosaic as part of “Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival.” 

For Theater J, where the Middle East Festival was born, Sinai has directed Motti Lerner’s Pangs of The Messiah (2007), Hillel Mittelpunkt’s The Accident (2009) and the Cameri Theater production of Return To Haifa based on the Palestinian novella by Gassan Kanafani, adapted by Boaz Gaon, which performed in DC in Hebrew and Arabic for 17 sold out performances in 2011. In 2014, he directed Motti Lerner’s The Admission which transferred to Studio Theatre, and then a year later, opened at the Jaffa Theatre where it ran for two years.  In 2016, Sinai returned to DC to teach at American University as a Visiting Professor and directed the world premiere of Lerner’s After The War for Mosaic. Together with Chel Alon he co-directed The Peacock of Silwan by Alma Ganihar at the Akko Festival for Alternative Theatre and then at The Jaffa Theatre.  Most recent directing credits in Israel include Yulia, an adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie by Israel Hameiri in The Studio Theater of Haifa; Ana min elYahud by Ilanit Swissa inspired by Almog Behar for Jaffa Theater. He directed Shnat Efes/Year Zero a docudrama about the bloody events of 1929 in Palestine by Avner Ben Amos, inspired by Hilell Kohen at Jaffa Theater. He's directed Israeli premieres of American writers like David Ives' New Jerusalem, and George Brant's The Tender Age and Grounded.  He has acted in television dramas in the roles of David Ben Gurion and Eliezer Ben Yehuda and in movies such as Shuru and Beyond the Sea. He has acted at the Haifa Municipal Theatre, Bet Lessin Theatre and the Orna Porat Children and Youth Theatre and has taught for decades at Seminar Hakibutzim and the college HaGalilee HaMaaravi. Other teaching residencies abroad, have included Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, Uganda, and Kyrgyzstan.