Miles To Go Before I Sleep

Yochai Greenfeld is a multi hyphenated artist based in New York, and creator of Haus of Midrash - a weekly Torah recap in Drag, hosted by Abbi G'zunt. Currently performing the role of Mila in “3rd Gen” - a dance-theater memoire by Shany Dagan.

Credits include Nachum in “Fiddler on The Roof” (Broadway Tour), Shaya in “Imported Bridegroom” (Off-Broadway), Snoopy in “Charlie Brown Christmas” (National Tour) Blanche in "Golden Gays" (International Tour), Gregor Samsa in "Metamorphosis - the Frantz Kafka Musical" (Workshop), and Boaz* in “Borders” (The Tank).

His playwright debut, It Gets Bitter, premiered at the Queer Jewish Arts Festival in Baltimore MD during the summer of 2022.

Yochai began his artistic career as a company dancer, eventually moving towards Theater, musicals and Drag. His schooling journey includes the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, vocal coaching with Eidan Lipper and Kathrine Witchen, The Studio acting school, and Heidi Marshal's acting for camera intensives.

Fellowships & Grants:

LABA - A Lab for Jewish Culture (2019), where I cultivated my original work, 'It Gets Bitter', which  debut in the Queer Jewish Arts Festival in 2022.

Gesher Foundation - A Screenwriters Cohort (2020), where I co- developed my screenplay - L’Chaim. 

Hanoch Levin Incubator - A Playwright Fellowship (2023), where I developed the stage adaptation of L’Chaim.

Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media -   The 2nd “Unapologetically Jewish” Content Creators Competition (2025), where “Open Haus” - my mini web-series about the creation of “Haus of Midrash” was a finalist.    

Greenfeld holds a B.A in Psychology from the Open University and spent two years studying Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Additionally, he’s dedicated two and a half years to Judaic studies at a Yeshivah.

Photo Credit: Yakir Shukrun

Photo Credit: Ohad Kab