Liat Fassberg was born in 1985 in Jerusalem. She studied dramaturgy in Frankfurt am Main and Theater and Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities in Tel Aviv. For her play Etwas kommt mir bekannt vor which premiered 2017/18 at the Vienna Burgtheater, she received the Retzhofer Drama Award 2017. The jury commended the piece as one of »challenging the theater in this weird twenty-first century, where everyone - whether allowed to stay in one place or not - is nothing but left bare«.