Bio
Lighting designer Itai Erdal has designed over 130 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, Arts Club Theatre, Bard on the Beach, National Arts Centre, The Citadel, 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, Ruby Slippers, 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, Roberta Baseggio, Serge Bennathan, Kate Alton, Chick Snipper, Noa Dar, Susan Elliot, Peter Bingham and Toru Shimazaki
Itai has been nominated for seventeen awards in the past eight 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.
As a theatre photographer Itai worked for such companies as: Vancouver Playhouse, Rumble Productions, Theatre Replacement, Radix, Anatomica Dance, The Holy Body Tattoo, Western Canada Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Theatre Skam and Theatre for the New City.
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