Author Profile:  Aviva Ravel

Aviva Ravel was born and resides in Montreal.  She holds a Ph.D. from McGill University in Canadian Drama and taught English and Drama at McGill, Concordia and Universite de Montreal.  She has also taught in elementary schools and on a kibbutz in Israel.  Many of her stage plays have been adapted for radio and produced by CBC and Israel Radio. 

Her plays include comedies such as Dance Like a Butterfly, Whatever Makes You Happy, My Rumanian Cousin, Mendel Fish; dramas such as Vengeance, Moon People, Dispossessed; and children's plays such as Legends of King Solomon, The Sholom Aleichem Show, One Potato, Two Potato, Be My Friend.  Aviva's award-winning works are published by Playwrights Canada Press, Dundurn Press, Pembroke, and of course, Pioneer Drama Service.

Aviva is artistic director of Cameo Productions and directs the popular Performance Playreading Ensemble for the Cote St. Luc Library.  She was married to the late Nahum Ravel of Montreal.  Her present husband is Albert Fleitman; together they have eight children and fourteen grandchildren.

For more information, see Aviva's website.