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1. Pseudonyms are used for the case vignettes to provide anonymity. and Harel 2019). When the pandemic broke out, many drama therapy sessions were transformed into online therapy sessions using video applications, such as WhatsApp and Zoom (Atsmon and Pendzik 2020). However, many of the ageing population in Israel are not familiar with video communication technology and use neither smartphones nor computers. Therefore, many drama therapy sessions with older adults had to continue in a telephone setting through the medium of voice alone. The two case vignettes presented here demonstrate individual tele-drama therapy with older adults and the process of bringing the dramatic reality (Pendzik 2006) to the telephone setting. Both sessions are part of individual drama therapy processes that were conducted in an adult day centre by a second-year drama therapy student, as part of her practical training and with the supervision of a professional drama therapist. Both processes started in November 2019, with face-to-face individual weekly drama therapy sessions that used varied techniques, such as storytelling, role-playing, exploring metaphors and small psychodrama vignettes (such as empty chair and role reversal). In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, the drama therapy sessions became twice-weekly tele-drama therapy using the telephone as the most readily available and familiar technology for both women.