Averi Israel
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Averi Israel is a writer, director, and producer from the eight cities that raised her. She moved to NYC to pursue a Film Studies degree from Columbia University, where she graduated the class recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. Now cultivating a career at the intersection of art and activism, her work for stage and screen explores themes of community, race, gender, sexuality, violence, and love in the context of American culture.
She is a 2022 recipient of the New York Foundation of the Arts Women’s Fund for Media Music and Theatre, a member of Theatre Producers of Color Cohort III, a 2023 Athena Film Festival Writers Lab participant, a 2024 Tallgrass Artist Resident, and a Tony nominated co-producer for the George C. Wolfe Broadway revival of Gypsy.
She is a 2022 recipient of the New York Foundation of the Arts Women’s Fund for Media Music and Theatre, a member of Theatre Producers of Color Cohort III, a 2023 Athena Film Festival Writers Lab participant, a 2024 Tallgrass Artist Resident, and a Tony nominated co-producer for the George C. Wolfe Broadway revival of Gypsy.
