Moshe Lobel is an American actor, filmmaker and musician. He is best known for starring in the Yiddish-Ukrainian drama Shttl, which premiered at the London Film Festival^[1] and in competition at the Rome Film Festival.^[2][3]

Lobel was raised in the insular Yiddish-speaking Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn.^[4] At age 12, he began to break away from his Hasidic roots, ultimately leaving the community entirely.^[5] He studied psychology at Yeshiva University, but switched his focus to theater,^[6] before leaving the school in his second year.^[4]

In 2017, Lobel made his Off-Broadway debut as Ralph in New Yiddish Rep's production of Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets.^[5][7][8] In 2018, he made his television debut on HBO's High Maintenance.^[9] Later that year, he joined the cast of Fiddler on the Roof In Yiddish directed by Joel Grey,^[10] and appeared in The Vigil from Blumhouse.^[11]

With writer Etai Shuchatowitz, Lobel co-created, directed and starred in Untold Genius, a mockumentary series featuring Jackie Hoffman and Stephen Tobolowsky.^[9]

In 2021, he was cast as the lead in Shttl, a Yiddish drama featuring Saul Rubinek. The film depicts the lives of a Jewish shtetl on the eve of Operation Barbarossa. It was filmed in Ukraine six months before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[12] The film premiered at the 2022 London Film Festival,^[1][13] and won the Audience Award one week later at the Rome Film Festival.^[14]