Bio
Lighting designer Itai Erdal has designed over 120 shows for theatre and dance companies in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Tel Aviv, Berlin, London and New York.
Some of the companies he worked with include: Vancouver Playhouse, Bard on the Beach, National Arts Centre, Theatre for the New City, Alberta Theatre Project, Volcano Productions, Factory Theatre, Actor's Repertory Company, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Neworld Theatre, Electric Company, Theatre Replacement, Touchstone, Leaky Heaven Circus, Rumble Productions, Modern Baroque Opera, Carousel Theatre, Studio 58, Radix, The Gateway Theatre, The Jerusalem Lab, Haifa Theatre, Tamasha Theatre and Box Clever
He worked with such choreographers as: Nigel Charnock, Noam Gagnon, Robert Hylton, Serge Bennathan, Kate Alton, Chick Snipper, Noa Dar, Susan Elliot, Jennifer Mascal, Peter Bingham and Toru Shimazaki
Itai has been nominated for fifteen theatre awards in the past six years, winning the Sam Paine award for most promising newcomer in '03, the ADC's Jack King award
in '05, a Dora Mavor Moore award in '07, the best design award in the Dublin Fringe Festival in '08 and a Jessie Richardson award in '09. He was nominated to the Siminovizt Prize in '06.
His photos have appeared in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, the Vancouver Sun, the Georgia Straight and in several newspapers and magazines in Israel.
Itai is a member of Associated Designers of Canada and lives on Commercial Drive in Vancouver.
Recent Interview on CBC Radio