Lili Rosen

Lili Rosen, born and raised in the Hasidic community of Boro Park, Brooklyn, is a former attorney-cum-Yiddish consultant who specializes in the Yiddish language and culture of pre-war Eastern European communities and contemporary Hasidic society. Dubbed by Airmail magazine “Hollywood’s Yiddish Consultant”, she served as the script consultant, translator, language coach and art consultant on numerous projects for theatre, film and TV, including most recently Netflix’s Unorthodox, and SHTTL, a French-Ukrainian feature film in the final stages of production. Lili is the past managing director of the New Yiddish Repertory Theater where she appeared in, translated and/or produced numerous plays, including her own one-person-show, The Drunk Cantor—adapted from the monologues of Maurice Schwartz and the stories of Sholem Aleichem.