Eli Zuzovsky

Biography

Eli Zuzovsky is a film and theater writer and director, born and raised in Tel Aviv. He graduated from Harvard summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s in filmmaking and English, winning the Sudler, Hoopes, and McCord Prizes. Zuzovsky holds a master’s with distinction in French and German and a practice-led Ph.D. in fine art from Oxford, where he studied 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.”