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Uri started his career in the mid 1980s’ touring the London comedy circuit with his act La Belle et La Bete and was commissioned to direct and perform ‘Falling Dreams’ at the ICA and ‘Sahara’ at the BAC with the Collusion Buto theatre company. |
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| Throughout the 1990’s he toured internationally with tottering bipeds, a theatre company which he co-founded with Katie London. Their work was hailed as: | |
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"Comic, strikingly creative, berserkly funny. These bipeds have found a new and appropriate visual language ... full of wit and wisdom, bleakness and black humour ... " The sunday Times; |
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"...superb... imaginative and vigorous theatre ... Stunning and original.” The Independent; |
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“.. awe-inspiring combination of physical and emotional intensity... Mesmerising ... a theatrical tour de force.” The Scotsman; |
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tottering bipeds toured to many venues in Britain including The Traverse Edinburgh, Theatre Clwyd, Plymouth Theatre Royal, BAC & the Lyric Hammersmith. Its productions of ‘The Chairs’, ‘Satan in Goray’, ‘The Overcoat’, ‘Macario’ & ‘Waiting for Godot’ also toured abroad and the company was chosen to represent Britain at the International Festival of New Theatre in Madrid in 1992. A documentary film of the company’s work was shown in 1998 on BBC2. |
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In the late 1990s’ with the BAFTA awarded ‘Gordon & Getzels Films Company’ Uri made documentary films. These included ‘Return of the Killer Bug’, ‘Search for Atlantis’, ‘Psi Files’ and ‘Why Biotherapy’ for the BBC and for the Discovery Channel USA. He devised many sequences of physical comedy for the CBBC programmes “Cat's Eyes”, “Science Zone” and “Science in Action” and worked as an acting coach on the TV comedy/drama “Desperados” amongst others. |
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| More recently he directed Christopher Baileys' “The Inconsiderate Aberrations of Billy the Kid" and adopted this farce into a RockN'Roll satire, staged first, at the Riverside Studios London. Edinburgh 2009. | |
| He co-wrote and directed Babaghanush & Bagels, staged at the Edinburgh Festival and at The Oval House London. The play, where a young Muslim and a young Jew travel together to the Middle East in search of their roots, received critical acclaim including a review in the Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon:- “a gem of originality, wit and daring…poignant… few can match the energy and timeliness of this one-act, ironically life-affirming, comedy-drama. The audience reaction was almost as fascinating as the show itself with laughter, followed by gasps, and finally tears as the play reached its tragic conclusion.” |
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Uri’s work as an actor includes appearances at The Royal Court, The Arts Theatre West End, The Sheffield Crucible, The Dukes Lancaster, The Hackney Empire, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Theatre Clwyd, The Traverse Edinburgh and Saddlers Wells. Films include: - Revelation, With or Without You, Institute Benjamenta, In Other Words, The Great Renaldo and Baggage. TV include: - 20 Things to do Before you are 30, Sirens, Real Q, Millennium, Trainer, Three in a House and The Accountant. He has appeared in many TV commercials and works regularly as a voiceover artist in English and Hebrew.
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Uri has taught extensively in the UK as well as in New York, Amsterdam, Madrid and Tel-Aviv. |
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