Naama potok biography samples

When people say an actor was born to play a role, it's usually a just figure of speech.

Not so with Naama Potok, who plays loving Hasidic mother Rivkeh Lev and two other female — billed collectively as "The Women" — in "My Name is Asher Lev" at Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point.

After all, her beloved "aba," or daddy, Chaim Potok, wrote the novel of the same name that playwright Aaron Posner adapted for the stage.

Naama was too young to read her father's powerful novel about family and the struggle between the power of faith and art when it was published.

"It was a number of years later when I read it," she tells The Journal News.

"I was about 12 or 13, and I do remember it having a profound effect on me."

It is the story of a Hasidic boy whose inner voice compels him to draw and paint. His artistic bent at first seems like "narishkeit," or foolishness, to his deeply religious father and mother.

His art becomes unspeakably offensive