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“We owe Marat a great deal, Israeli culture owes him a great deal — and I say this without exaggeration.”
— Yonatan Gat, Kan Tarbut

“As he enters his fourth decade, Marat Parkhomovsky has already compiled a diverse list of achievements that amount to a small life’s work.”
— Prof. Gad Kaynar-Kissinger, Teatron Journal

“Marat Parkhomovsky is one of the most influential cultural figures in Tel Aviv.”
— 7 Nights, Yedioth Ahronoth

Marat Parkhomovsky is a theater and film creator, entrepreneur, and cultural innovator specializing in projects that preserve and reimagine cultural memory.

A graduate with honors from Tel Aviv University’s Departments of Film and Theatre Arts, Parkhomovsky began his career assisting renowned directors Robert Sturua, Rina Yerushalmi, and Menahem Golan. Since 2010, he has created a wide range of works for Israel’s most prominent stages. His notable productions include The Tragedies of Oedipus and Antigone (Wahl Amphitheater, Habima), Are There Cockroaches in Israel? (Habima), The Golem Lives!, The American Princess (Returns), 1948, and Something Can Be Done About It (Tmuna Theater), Napoleon’s Second Invasion (Acco Festival), Fantasy for Violin and Love (Yiddishpiel), Grandma Varda’s Salon (Teatroneto), Chekhov Working on “Three Sisters” (Herzliya Ensemble), and Queen of Bath1970.2010 (Tel Aviv University Theater).

Between 2019–2023, Parkhomovsky served as Artistic Director of the Golden Hedgehog Awards — Israel’s Fringe Theater Prize. Between 2023–2024, he chaired BETI, the Israeli Theatre Directors’ Guild. In 2025, together with filmmaker Oren Gerner, he co-founded the Independent Cinema Initiative of Mifal HaPais (Israel’s National Lottery).

In cinema, his first feature film Tel Aviv (2021) — which he wrote, directed, and produced with support from the Israeli Cinema Project – Rabinovich Foundation — won the Debut Feature Award at the Haifa International Film Festival, and Jury & Audience awards at the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival in the USA.

Parkhomovsky is also the co-creator (since 2005, with Avital Berkerman) of The Israeli Cinema Testimonial Database, a groundbreaking new-media project documenting Israeli cinema history. For this, he received the Cinema Art Award from the Ministry of Culture and Sport in 2011. The project has been supported over the years by the Israel Film Fund, Mifal HaPais Council for Culture and Arts, Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Jerusalem Cinematheque – Israeli Film Archive, the Screenwriters’ Guild, and the Directors’ Guild.

In 2016, he was among the founders of the Cinema of Israel website, launched by the Ministry of Culture and Sport as the most comprehensive database of Israeli cinema. He has since served as its Content Director and Executive Producer.

In addition to his artistic work, Parkhomovsky has written extensively about theater and film for 17 years in leading Israeli media outlets, including City Mouse, Time Out, Walla, Yedioth Tel Aviv, Haaretz, and Cinematheque Journal.