The actor and theatre director, Giora Seeliger, was born in Haifa, Israel. He grew up in Germany and France, where he received his artistic training with Fratellini’s National Circus School, Jacques Lecoq, Etienne Decroux and Yves Lebreton. In 1982 he founded the Théatre des Falaises, and toured all over Europe. Giora worked in numerous productions and festivals as actor and theatre director and devoted himself not only to works from Maeterlink, Shakespeare, Sherman and Dario Fo, but also cabaret, clownery and authors like Georg Kreisler and Karl Valentin. Besides this, he has worked on a series of movies and TV productions. Giora is now at home in Vienna, where he taught improvisation and elementary training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar for 8 years.  He has been teaching not only at the Austrian summer academy with S. Molcho and in Graz, but also at acting schools in Bochum, Hamburg, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo and Tel Aviv. He is co-founder and artistic director of the organisation ROTE NASEN Clowndoctors and founded the International School of Humour in Vienna.