Eran Edry
Eran is a fully bilingual, English and Hebrew-speaking screenwriter, playwright, lyricist and translator who has worked in international film, television, and theatre since 2005.
From writing extensively for children’s television (BabyFirstTV, Helen Doron Group, Zumbini) to his most recent collaborations with French production house, Blackpills. and high-profile Israeli filmmakers such as Eran Riklis (Spider in the Web, 2019), the Paz Brothers (The Golem, 2018), and Savi Gabizon (Longing, 2017), Eran creates, develops and writes original and commissioned TV programming for wide-ranging demographics, as well as translating, adapting and localising screenplays from Hebrew to global, English-speaking markets.
Eran is university-trained in dramatic film and television writing and editing and to date, has had two original drama pilots, Unborn Again (2015) and Yesterday Once More (2016) go into development and commissioning consideration. Furthermore, he continues to consult on numerous comedy, drama, and thriller television and film projects.
In theatre, in 2016, A Tale of Two Tails - an original children's musical for which Eran had written both book and lyrics was produced and performed in London. His latest stage adaptation work, Amsterdam (2017-18); written by award-winning playwright Maya Arad-Yasur, has just finished a successful principal run at Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre and will be going on a national tour of the UK in 2020.
His other recent theatre credits include the English adaptations of original plays by Goren Agmon (Alma and Ruth, 2019), Shay Pitowski (The Oath, 2019), and up-and-coming playwright, Nili Lamdan (Land of Onions and Honey, 2019).
Eran lives in North London where he is currently working on his debut children’s novel and a television drama pilot.
From writing extensively for children’s television (BabyFirstTV, Helen Doron Group, Zumbini) to his most recent collaborations with French production house, Blackpills. and high-profile Israeli filmmakers such as Eran Riklis (Spider in the Web, 2019), the Paz Brothers (The Golem, 2018), and Savi Gabizon (Longing, 2017), Eran creates, develops and writes original and commissioned TV programming for wide-ranging demographics, as well as translating, adapting and localising screenplays from Hebrew to global, English-speaking markets.
Eran is university-trained in dramatic film and television writing and editing and to date, has had two original drama pilots, Unborn Again (2015) and Yesterday Once More (2016) go into development and commissioning consideration. Furthermore, he continues to consult on numerous comedy, drama, and thriller television and film projects.
In theatre, in 2016, A Tale of Two Tails - an original children's musical for which Eran had written both book and lyrics was produced and performed in London. His latest stage adaptation work, Amsterdam (2017-18); written by award-winning playwright Maya Arad-Yasur, has just finished a successful principal run at Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre and will be going on a national tour of the UK in 2020.
His other recent theatre credits include the English adaptations of original plays by Goren Agmon (Alma and Ruth, 2019), Shay Pitowski (The Oath, 2019), and up-and-coming playwright, Nili Lamdan (Land of Onions and Honey, 2019).
Eran lives in North London where he is currently working on his debut children’s novel and a television drama pilot.
London (Greater London)
- The World in Black and White (Story consultant and English version writer) – graphic novel (2019) (In production)
- Bystanders (English version writer) – docu-drama (2019) (Post-production)
- Over and Over (Story and dialogue writer and editor) – graphic novel (2019)
- The Enchanted Drum (Script and story consultant) – children’s feature film (2018) (In development)
- Migo (English version screenwriter and story consultant) – animated children’s series – pilot – (2018)
- Spermcation (Script and Story Consultant) – dramedy (2018-) (In development)
- Alphaboat (Creator, screenwriter) – children’s animated series – 8 episodes (2017-18) (Post-production)
- The Edge of Heaven (Co-creator, screenwriter) – Feature film (2017-18) (In Development) Rubber Mind Pictures
- The Pirettes (English adaptation screenwriter) – children’s animated series – pilot - (2018)
- Longing (English dialogue editor) – Feature film by Savi Gabizon (2017)
- A Tale of Two Tales (book writer and lyricist) – Musical (2016)
- Zumbini (screenwriter) – children’s animated series – 10 episodes (2016)
- Yesterday Once More (Creator, screenwriter) – paranormal drama pilot (2016)
- Snuggle Stories (writer) – 18 original stories for app (2016)
- Color Crew (lyricist) – 11 original songs for series two (2016)
- Unborn Again (Creator and writer) – Drama series development, United Studios Israel – 4 episodes (2005, 2015)
- The Contest (writer and story editor) – 4-part teen drama – (2015)
- Shimmy it off, Girl (Development consultant and co-writer) – dramedy (2015)
- Top Tables-Top Cities (Screenwriter) – NatGeo series – 12 episodes (2014-15)
- Polly the Collie (Creator, screenwriter) – children’s animated series – 20 episodes (2014-15)
- Jump with Joey (Creator, screenwriter) – children’s animated series, 26 episodes (2013-14)
- Sodom (development consultant, screenwriter) – Horror series (2012)
- Fun with Flupe (Screenwriter) – Children’s animated series – 26 episodes (2011-12)
- Color Crew (2008) – 22 episodes – ages 2-4 – creator and screenwriter
- Magic Tunnels (2008) – 22 episodes – ages 1-3 – creator and screenwriter
- VocabuLarry (2008) – 50 episodes – ages 1-3 – creator and screenwriter
- Ready-Dress-Go! (2007) – 22 episodes – ages 2-4 – creator and screenwriter
- Harry the Bunny (2007-) – Season 1 - six episodes – ages 2-4 - screenwriter
- Numbers around the Globe (2006) – 52 episodes – ages 2-4 – creator and screenwriter
- Shape-a-majigs (2006) – 26 episodes – ages 3-5 – creator and screenwriter
- Numbers Farm (2005) – 26 episodes – ages 2-4 – creator and screenwriter
Full list of credits available on request.
Animation, Childrens writing, Film, Television, Theatre
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(** Taken from Inheritance in Waiting (2019), an original Israeli comedy whose English version I was commissioned to write and adapt)
INT. LIFT - DAY
An office building lift. The family, still in their funeral attire, are all crammed together inside the lift. Standing in the middle are the sad sister trio - Hannah, Tzilla, and Malka'le.
MALKA'LE
What's the big rush? Right after the bloody funeral...
TZILLA
Why don't you ask your mother...
HANNAH
Ma's dead.
BEAT
TZILLA
What is that smell? What perfume are you wearing?
HANNAH
What's that supposed to mean? You saying you don't like it?
TZILLA
At what point did I say I didn't like it?
INT. SOLICITORS' OFFICE - DAY
A posh office boasting mahogany wood furniture and a massive library. Behind a large desk, we find Alon Garbuz, Esq., wearing his reading glasses and holding a stack of papers. Next to him is his brother, Yair Garbuz, Esq. He produces a bunch of documents from inside an old folder.
Across the table, as if taken straight out of a family tableau, is the whole family. There is chaos in the room.
ALON GARBUZ
Quiet!
The family goes silent.
ALON GARBUZ
We can't carry on like this...
YAIR GARBUZ
Can't even hear myself think.
ALON GARBUZ
Now, what was the question? Hands raised, pleased.
Malka'le plucks up the courage and raises a hand.
MALKA'LE
And what if we don't? What if we don't go?
ALON GARBUZ
What if you don't go? Well, if you don't go on this trip then your mother's written instructions state that the inheritance be frozen, in full, for a period of one hundred years...
YaIR GARBUZ
(Finishing his brother's sentence)
Meaning only your children's children's children would be eligible to claim it.
TZILLA
Hang on, Garbuz... What do you mean 'written instructions'? When did Ma write any of this? She could have been whacked out on her meds...
YAIR GARBUZ
Your mother was a woman of sound body and mind...
HANNAH
Tell me... all this... This is all legal, is it?
AlON GARBUZ
It is legal because it's what your mother wanted...
HANNAH
Honestly... What did we ever lose in Poland?
Quiet all around.
YEHUDA
(Whispers to Gideon)
Your whole family for starters...
HANNAH
Tzilla, could you tell Yemeni Cricket over there to zip it?
Gideon pulls Yehuda into a tight embrace.
YEHUDA
(Whispers at him)
It's actually Adenite...
TZILLA
It's Adenite Cricket!
HANNAH
Whatever...
TZILLA
You know, Hannah, Ma might have some property over there.
HANNAH
Property my foot. She was born in a shithole; her father was this loser hanger-on... she barely made it out of the camps with a pair of shoes to her name... now, suddenly you're all interested in the inheritance?
TZILLA
Nachum, would you calm your wife down please?
HANNAH
Don't you 'Nachum' me!
YAIR GARBUZ
The inheritance is a moot point. Yes, it is a handsome one; more than enough to go around.
ALON GARBUZ
Quite... the flat on the Rembrandt Rd., and the Ben-Zion Blvd building alone...
YAIR GARBUZ
Not now, none of this is relevant... first, you all sit Shiva. In Poland. That means all of you. Per the instructions. Garbuz out.
ALON GARBUZ
Your flight takes off at 5.30. Your guide will meet you with your tour bus at arrivals. He's been brought up to speed and has the itinerary for every day of your stay, just as your mother had planned...
MALKA'LE
Guide? There's a guide? Who's the guide?
TZILLA
Huh?
HANNAH
Who?
YAIR GARBUZ
Enough with all the--
(In Yiddish)
Pointless questions!
MALKA'LE
I was only asking who the guide was.
ALON GARBUZ
Garbuz, what's the guide's name?
Garbuz opens a folder and checks the contents, then another one.
YAIR GARBUZ
Oh yeah, that information's classified.
MALKA'LE
If it's classified then I'm not going.
Garbuz slams the folder shut.
AlON GARBUZ
Then you don't get your inheritance.
AYELET
There is an inheritance, Malka'le! There is going to be one! It's all in your head.
GIDEON
What's all in her head?
AYELET
Later, Gideon.
Ayelet takes a blood pressure monitor out of her purse and starts pumping it.
TZILLA
I actually heard some pretty nice things about Poland. They have hot springs, bathhouses, lovely views...
HANNAH
Bathhouses... more like slaughterhouses.
TZILLA
And? What's your point? It's a heritage trip. A lot of folks doing that these days.
HANNAH
You do it then. And leave us out of it.
TZILLA
(In Yiddish)
Heaven forbid you stop your moaning.
Tzilla brazenly takes Jonathan's hand.
JONATHAN
Now in Hebrew?
TZILLA
Read the subtitles.
Jonathan nods.
AYELET
Mum, that's enough. My blood pressure's already through the roof. You two should spend the week together.
MALKA'LE
Lord help us all.
YaIR GARBUZ
Oh yeah. And according to this, there's someone else you should be inviting.
YeHUDA
(Whispers to Gideon)
Can I come too?
INT. LIFT - DAY
An office building lift. The family, still in their funeral attire, are all crammed together inside the lift. Standing in the middle are the sad sister trio - Hannah, Tzilla, and Malka'le.
MALKA'LE
What's the big rush? Right after the bloody funeral...
TZILLA
Why don't you ask your mother...
HANNAH
Ma's dead.
BEAT
TZILLA
What is that smell? What perfume are you wearing?
HANNAH
What's that supposed to mean? You saying you don't like it?
TZILLA
At what point did I say I didn't like it?
INT. SOLICITORS' OFFICE - DAY
A posh office boasting mahogany wood furniture and a massive library. Behind a large desk, we find Alon Garbuz, Esq., wearing his reading glasses and holding a stack of papers. Next to him is his brother, Yair Garbuz, Esq. He produces a bunch of documents from inside an old folder.
Across the table, as if taken straight out of a family tableau, is the whole family. There is chaos in the room.
ALON GARBUZ
Quiet!
The family goes silent.
ALON GARBUZ
We can't carry on like this...
YAIR GARBUZ
Can't even hear myself think.
ALON GARBUZ
Now, what was the question? Hands raised, pleased.
Malka'le plucks up the courage and raises a hand.
MALKA'LE
And what if we don't? What if we don't go?
ALON GARBUZ
What if you don't go? Well, if you don't go on this trip then your mother's written instructions state that the inheritance be frozen, in full, for a period of one hundred years...
YaIR GARBUZ
(Finishing his brother's sentence)
Meaning only your children's children's children would be eligible to claim it.
TZILLA
Hang on, Garbuz... What do you mean 'written instructions'? When did Ma write any of this? She could have been whacked out on her meds...
YAIR GARBUZ
Your mother was a woman of sound body and mind...
HANNAH
Tell me... all this... This is all legal, is it?
AlON GARBUZ
It is legal because it's what your mother wanted...
HANNAH
Honestly... What did we ever lose in Poland?
Quiet all around.
YEHUDA
(Whispers to Gideon)
Your whole family for starters...
HANNAH
Tzilla, could you tell Yemeni Cricket over there to zip it?
Gideon pulls Yehuda into a tight embrace.
YEHUDA
(Whispers at him)
It's actually Adenite...
TZILLA
It's Adenite Cricket!
HANNAH
Whatever...
TZILLA
You know, Hannah, Ma might have some property over there.
HANNAH
Property my foot. She was born in a shithole; her father was this loser hanger-on... she barely made it out of the camps with a pair of shoes to her name... now, suddenly you're all interested in the inheritance?
TZILLA
Nachum, would you calm your wife down please?
HANNAH
Don't you 'Nachum' me!
YAIR GARBUZ
The inheritance is a moot point. Yes, it is a handsome one; more than enough to go around.
ALON GARBUZ
Quite... the flat on the Rembrandt Rd., and the Ben-Zion Blvd building alone...
YAIR GARBUZ
Not now, none of this is relevant... first, you all sit Shiva. In Poland. That means all of you. Per the instructions. Garbuz out.
ALON GARBUZ
Your flight takes off at 5.30. Your guide will meet you with your tour bus at arrivals. He's been brought up to speed and has the itinerary for every day of your stay, just as your mother had planned...
MALKA'LE
Guide? There's a guide? Who's the guide?
TZILLA
Huh?
HANNAH
Who?
YAIR GARBUZ
Enough with all the--
(In Yiddish)
Pointless questions!
MALKA'LE
I was only asking who the guide was.
ALON GARBUZ
Garbuz, what's the guide's name?
Garbuz opens a folder and checks the contents, then another one.
YAIR GARBUZ
Oh yeah, that information's classified.
MALKA'LE
If it's classified then I'm not going.
Garbuz slams the folder shut.
AlON GARBUZ
Then you don't get your inheritance.
AYELET
There is an inheritance, Malka'le! There is going to be one! It's all in your head.
GIDEON
What's all in her head?
AYELET
Later, Gideon.
Ayelet takes a blood pressure monitor out of her purse and starts pumping it.
TZILLA
I actually heard some pretty nice things about Poland. They have hot springs, bathhouses, lovely views...
HANNAH
Bathhouses... more like slaughterhouses.
TZILLA
And? What's your point? It's a heritage trip. A lot of folks doing that these days.
HANNAH
You do it then. And leave us out of it.
TZILLA
(In Yiddish)
Heaven forbid you stop your moaning.
Tzilla brazenly takes Jonathan's hand.
JONATHAN
Now in Hebrew?
TZILLA
Read the subtitles.
Jonathan nods.
AYELET
Mum, that's enough. My blood pressure's already through the roof. You two should spend the week together.
MALKA'LE
Lord help us all.
YaIR GARBUZ
Oh yeah. And according to this, there's someone else you should be inviting.
YeHUDA
(Whispers to Gideon)
Can I come too?