Isaac Chocrón Serfaty (Maracay, September 25, 1930 – Caracas, November 6, 2011) was a Venezuelan playwright, translator, essayist, narrator and university professor.
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Isaac Chocrón Serfaty (Maracay, September 25, 1930 – Caracas, November 6, 2011) was a Venezuelan playwright, translator, essayist, narrator and university professor.
Born into a Sephardic family, he received his early education in a Catholic school, the Colegio Nuestra Señora de la Consolación (Maracay, Venezuela), and later completed high school in a Protestant institution, the Bordentown Military Institute, New Jersey. He studied Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He defined himself as "left-handed, Jewish, homosexual and writer."
Founder of the National Theater Company and director of the School of Arts of the Central University of Venezuela and the Teresa Carreño Theater. Chocrón, José Ignacio Cabrujas and Román Chalbaud were called "Santísima Trinidad de las Artes Escénicas" in Venezuela and, together with them, founded El Nuevo Grupo, a reference company of Venezuelan theater. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Syracuse University, a Master of International Relations degree from Columbia University and a PhD in Economic Development from the University of Manchester. He won the National Theatre Prize in 1979.
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