Professor Roy Horovitz is an acclaimed Israeli actor, director, translator, dramaturge and scholar. He is the chair of the drama and theatre program at Bar-llan University, and a senior lecturer at the David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem.

Roy was awarded the International Writing Program fellowship at Iowa University to take part in the writing residency program.

Horovitz has performed many roles for various theatres and represented Israel in many prestigious festivals around the world. He has been awarded "Best Actor" at the International Haifa Festival, 1997, and the "Best Director Award" for directing "Pollard's Trial" at the Cameri Theatre in Tel-Aviv. His films includes "The Body" with Antonio Banderas. Horovitz also directed a succession of critically acclaimed productions at Habima (Israel's national theatre), was the artistic director of the municipal theatre in Kiryat Shmona, the dramaturge of Beer-Sheba Theatre and a visiting professor at the American University in Washington DC and the University of Texas in Austin.

His Book, " A World of Innocents - The Dramatic Afterlife of the Bible in Yaakov Shabtai's Plays" which was published in 2021, gained rave reviews and won the prestigious "Scientific Excellence Award" in Israel.