About Netta
Biography
NETTA YASHCHIN was born in 1967 in Lithuania when it was part of the USSR. she immigrated with her family to Israel in 1975.
In 1998 when she was 31 she migrated to Australia. since then she had worked extensively around the world.
she has graduated from NIDA DIRECTING COURSE in 2009
She has graduated from the Tel-Aviv University Acting department in 1993.
She was an Actress for one of Israel’s most innovative theatres companies the Itim Ensemble.
Itim’s production Va-Yomer, Va-Yelech was presented in the 1998 Telstra Adelaide Festival.
Since arriving to Adelaide she formed the Yashchin Ensemble, a group of Adelaide Actors. The Ensemble presented A Hand Full of Earth, Mnemosyne, and the intimate.
She performed a lead role in the show Checklist for An Armed Robber with Vitalstatistics.
Directed The Hit by Christos Tsiolkas with Doppio Parrallelo presented at the Malthouse. Antigone with Urban Myth.
Directed “Talk to me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen…” By Tennessee Williams for State Theatre Company, SA 2007.
She performed a lead role in Memmie Le- Blank with Deckchair theatre and in the 2008 Adelaide Fringe in Queen’s theatre.
Netta undertook the post graduate course in directing at NIDA 2009.
Since then, she directed many productions among them Woytzeck by Georg Buchner for the B Sharp at Belvoir st. Theatre.
In 2011 she staged her first chamber opera Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky with the Sydney Chamber Opera and Climbing Towards Midnight with the same company.
She had directed her original adaptation of Animal Farm for ATYP.
In 2013 she was the assistant director to Tama Matheson on The Force of Destiny with Opera Australia and she was the revival director for the same opera for the State Opera of South Australia.
She directed Blasted by Sarah Kane for State Theatre Company South Australia.
In 2014 she performed in the NEON program at the Melbourne Thetare Company with Twin. an original show directed by acclaimed director Page Ratrray.
In 2015 she worked in Israel. Acted and directed. I Only Came to Use the Phone by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and won a prestigious prize for the adaptation in the fringe “The golden porcupine”,
she also worked as a lector with the Haifa university and created her own version of the wizard of Oz called Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Netta is also a composer and she had recently received a grant to develop her own material as a singer and song writer form the board for independent creators. She had created the show Dorothy is Coming Back from Oztralia.
She wrote and acted in “Sabra” (A native-born Israeli) for the Teantroneto festival in Tel- Aviv 2021. Sabra was presented in 2022 in New York for United Solo theatre festival and in Izmir turkey. In 2023 it will be presented in Chez Republic and recently at the Sydney Fringe Festival.
Netta performed a lead role with the acclaimed Yiddish theatre in Tel -Aviv on the show Quartet by Ron Howard.
In the last two years Netta was studying music production, composition and songwriting at the JMC academy in Sydney.
She has been developing her singing and performance.
Netta's Projects
Every performance begins long before the lights come up. For theatre director and actor Netta, storytelling is an act of deep observation — of people, places, and the quiet moments that often go unnoticed. Her creative process weaves together improvisation, text, and visual language to uncover truth and emotion on stage.
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