The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, commonly known as NYTF, is a professional theater company in New York City which produces both Yiddish plays and plays translated into Yiddish, in a theater equipped with simultaneous superscript translation into English. The company's leadership consists of executive director Dominick Balletta and artistic director Zalmen Mlotek. The board is co-chaired by Sandra Cahn and Carol Levin. Folksbiene (Yiddish: פֿאָלקסבינע, IPA: , People's Stage) was founded in 1915, under the auspices of the fraternal and Yiddish cultural organization Workmen's Circle, on New York City’s Lower East Side, as an amateur theatre group with high artistic ideals. It is the oldest consecutively producing theater company in the United States, English or Yiddish, commercial or not. The era when it was founded is considered to be the height of Yiddish theater; at the time there were 15 Yiddish theatre companies in the Yiddish Theater District in New York and many more worldwide. Due to the destruction of European Jewry by the German Nazis, the Folksbiene is one of only five professional Yiddish theatre companies still in operation; also in New York City is the New Yiddish Rep, and the others are in Bucharest, Warsaw and Tel Aviv. More information...
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