ELI ZUZOVSKY is a film and theater writer and director, born and raised in Tel Aviv. He graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s in filmmaking and English, winning the Sudler, Hoopes, and McCord Prizes. Zuzovsky holds a master’s in French and German from Oxford, where he teaches film while pursuing a Ph.D. in fine art as a Rhodes Scholar.
Shortlisted for an Israeli Academy Award, his work has been presented at the Harvard Film Archive, the American Repertory Theater, and Modern Art Oxford, among others. He’s been selected for the Venice Biennale College, Berlinale Talents, the Israeli Forbes list of “30 Under 30,” the Séries Mania Writers Campus, and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. Zuzovsky is the winner of the 2025 Einstein Fellowship for “outstanding young thinkers.”
His play LONG DISTANCE, developed through Soho Theatre Labs, premiered at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe. His debut novel MAZELTOV is forthcoming from Macmillan.