Dylan Seders Hoffman is an actor, singer, director, and Jewish cultural artist based in New York City, originally from Cleveland, Ohio.

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A regular on the Yiddish stage, Dylan has performed Off-Broadway with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene in productions such as The Sorceress (NYT Critic's Pick), The Bird of the Ghetto, All Windows Face the Sun, and the upcoming Kids and Yiddish. She has performed in NYC with the New Yiddish Rep (The Women), at the New York Theater Festival, The Brick, and the Center for Performance Research, and will be seen in the upcoming Yiddish-language short film STRIYA.

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Dylan’s work as a director and producer explores the intersection of pop culture and 21st century Jewishness, infused with a generous dose of Yiddish. Her debut short film, Yiddish Mean Girls, was lauded as one of the twelve "Best Jewish Pop Culture Moments" of 2022 by Hey Alma Magazine and has been featured at numerous film festivals worldwide. Her directing and producing credits include collaborations with organizations such as the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the Workers Circle, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and the Yiddish New York festival. Dylan also assistant directed the Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated play King of the Jews. Her work has been featured in Hey Alma and The Forward. 

 

Through the Alliance for Jewish Theatre, where she was a 2021-2023 fellow, Dylan received a grant to write and perform a Yiddish translation of Brecht’s The Jewish Wife, produced in fall 2023. Her writing has been published in Hey Alma, In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, and thINKingDANCE.

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She is a magna cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr College where she studied Devised Dance Theatre and Jewish Studies. She was awarded the Jane Wilkinson Arts Prize for Outstanding Contributions in the Arts from Bryn Mawr College and the Arbeter Ring Prize for Excellence in Yiddish Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.​