Description: SUMMATION Mikhl Yashinsky (מיכל יאַשינסקי) is an actor, playwright, stage director, lyricist, and Yiddishist. Recently his new Yiddish drama "Vos flist durkhn oder" (Blessing of the New Moon) premiered at the Lower East Side Play Festival. Before that, appeared in the en travesti title role of Avrom Goldfaden's operetta The Sorceress at the National Yiddish…
Mikhl Yashinsky (מיכל יאַשינסקי) is an actor, playwright, stage director, lyricist, and Yiddishist. Recently his new Yiddish drama “Vos flist durkhn oder ” (Blessing of the New Moon) premiered at the Lower East Side Play Festival. Before that, appeared in the en travesti title role of Avrom Goldfaden’s operetta The Sorceress at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene , for which he was hailed by the New York Times for bringing a “keen, if malevolent , psychology” to the title role as Morkdhe the innkeeper
In his yellow bedroom.
Born in Détroit, Michigan, where it’s south to Canada and “up north” to a summer wonderland of dancing whitefish and prancing white-tails (deer, Yashinsky’s most favored animal—see Felix Salten’s Bambi , an inspiration, not just to Walt Disney). The grandson of actors, Elizabeth Elkin Weiss and Rubin Weiss—pioneers of radio and television, and revered treaders of the boards in their and Yashinsky’s native metropolis.