Tal Itzhaki

Tal Itzhaki (; born March 1, 1956) is an Israeli theatre designer and director of the Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv, a translator of plays and prose into Hebrew.

Biography Tal Itzhaki was born 1 March 1956 in Tel Aviv, Israel, to Dr Yedidya Itzhaki, architect and Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Bar-Ilan University and Rina Itzhaki, educator at the Kibbutzim College of Education. She is married to Israeli Professor of theatre at the University of Haifa and translator of drama and poetry Avraham Oz.

Education Itzhaki earned a Senior Art Teacher degree from the HaMidrasha School of Art (now HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts of Beit Berl College), Israel (1977), where she studied (among others) under painters such as Raffi Lavie, Eliahu Gat, Yair Garbuz and Shlomo Vitkin; and a B.A. in theatre design (1982) from Tel Aviv University, where she studied under designers such as Lydia Pincus-Gani, Eli Sinai and Ben-Tzion Munitz. She is currently a PhD candidate in Theatre at Tel Aviv University

Career Tal Itzhaki has been the director of the Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv since its establishment in 2010. She taught at Tel Aviv University Theatre Department, at the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education and served as Senior Lecturer at the Sapir Academic College. She founded the program of theatre design at the Department of Theatre at the University of Haifa which she headed for 9 years (1996-2004). Between 2003 and 2005 she was a visiting artist at Columbia University, New York, where she designed and produced, together with fellow director Amit Gazit, productions such as Hanoch Levin's Luggage Packers, and co-authored "Neighbors", an adapted "contamination" collage of Levin's plays and "Xandra compelled to speak", a theatrical piece based on Euripides' Trojan Women and texts by 16 other authors, classical and modern.

TV Itzhaki also designed TV shows, among them "The Ya'acov Shabtai Songs Show," (1997); "Homage to Kibbutzim," (1997), and others.

Other Activities Together with fellow designer Moshe Sternfeld, playwright Hanoch Levin and others, Itzhaki was one of the initiators and founders of the first Fringe Centre in Tel Aviv. She served for many years the General Secretary of AMBI, the Israeli organization of stage designers, curated numerous stage design exhibitions in Israel and abroad, among them six exhibitions of Israeli stage design at the Prague Quadrennial (1991-2011) and the pioneering and much acclaimed and attended "Fashion Show", a gigantic retrospective exhibition of the history of stage and costume design in Israel at the large foyers of the Jerusalem Theatre (2008-9). Itzhaki has published articles on scenography in professional and academic journals and books, and organized international conferences on the subject. She was the Israeli delegate on the professional committees of OISTAT, the International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians, and was active in IFTR, the international federation of theatre research. Itzhaki lectured, led seminars and workshop and served as member of professional jury in international design competitions, all those in Prague, Amsterdam, United States, Antwerp, Lisbon, Ebora, Munich, Jaipur, Seoul, Gothenburg and elsewhere. She served twice as a juror at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, where she, like many theatre personalities of her generation, started their professional careers.

Translations Tal Itzhaki has translated numerous plays into the Hebrew, among them María Irene Fornés' The Conduct of Life, Sarah Daniels Neaptide, Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing, David Hare's Secret Rapture, Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine and Seven Jewish Girls, Arnold Wesker's Shylock, Bernard Slade's Same Time Next Year, Anne Devlin's Ourselves Alone, Nick Dear's The Art of Success, and many others. She has translated Winston Churchill's collection Never Give In.

Awards and Citations Tal Itzhaki has designed sets, costume, puppets and masks for over 250 shows in theatres, dance companies, and theatre schools in Israel and abroad. Her work won several awards and citations.

Her design for "Woman from the Earth" at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, 1981, won her the First Prize for design. "The fair, celestial set of Tali Itzhaki, with sown angels, and silhouettes of Cherubim and Seraphim placed on stage, is wonderful", wrote critic Giora Manor at the daily "Al Hamishmar"; and Amir Orian writes in the weekly "Ha'ir":"The set of Tali Itzhaki is simple and serves well the basic approach of the production. Yet it is also impressive in its beauty in the combined placement of the various figures of Lilith in shades of red against a white background."

On her design for "The Pledge of Troth" at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre and The Library Theatre, Maariv (newspaper) reviewer Sarit Fuchs has written: " "The Pledge of Troth"... turned, owing to a beautiful classical stage fermentation, into a sensual experience, a dream experience... The sea of Jaffa – one of the central symbols of the story – the symbol of sub conscience, passion, lunacy, was created by designer Tali Itzhaki as a beautiful backdrop, serving as a reflection of the mental world of the characters, who are gradually engulfed and imprisoned by their madness. The sea, like the entire stage, moves between a shining Israeli light of consciousness, and a Norwegian or Swedish darkening, of a sub conscience remindful of Ibsen, Bergman, or Edvard Munch"

And on the production of Inherit the Wind, which she designed for the Haifa Theatre, theatre critic Elyakim Yaron wrote in the same paper: "It is impossible to imagine Gazit's direction of the play, especially in those parts in which a huge theatrical and spectacular momentum is required, without his fertile cooperation with his stage designer, Tali Itzhaki. Her impressive stage design indeed enables a show of such theatrical extension. Her design managed to successfully create a magnificent integration of that atmosphere of distinct American background, and a clear conception of a huge and impressive space. The aesthetic neatness of the set, which wonderfully combines the brown wooden colors with the classical white structure of columns and banisters, is a delight for the eye. And indeed the director uses this framework well, when he sits on the upper balconies the town's citizens attending the trial. And this excellent stage picture is yet complemented by the beautiful costumes."

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Selected works for the theatre: set, costume, puppets and masks

Selected works designed (to open table press the "show" button) Year Production Author Adaptation/Translation Director Set Costume Puppets/Masks Lighting Theatre 1980 No Pardon, No Thanks, No Welcome Yitzhak Laor Yitzhak Laor Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Kibbutzim College of Education 1981 "Men in the Sun" Ghassan Kanafani Fuad Awad Fuad Awad Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Dorit Malin Tel Aviv University 1981 Woman from the Earth Yael Feiler from Jewish sources Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Dorit Malin Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, Neve Tzedek Theatre 1982 Curse of the Starving Class Sam Shepard Esther Izbitsky Esther Izbitsky Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1982 The Lost Princess Shimon Levy after Nachman of Breslav Shimon Levy Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tel Aviv University 1982 Zbenk and Finish San Francisco Mime Troupe Sinai Peter Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Neve Tzedek Theatre 1982 Kennedy's Children Robert Patrick Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1983 The Trip to the Island Ulay after Miriam Yalan-Stekelis Bilhah Mass Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yuval Theatre 1983 Dusa, Fish, Vy and Stas Pam Gems Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Kibbutzim College of Education 1983 Circles Ophelia Strall David Braslavi Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tel Aviv University 1983 Courtship and Marriage Dennis Silk Fa Tsu Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Objects Theatre, Israel Museum 1984 The Parliament of Women after Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae Nisim Aloni Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Kibbutz Stage 1984 Pledge of Troth Yoram Falk after Shmuel Yosef Agnon Yoram Falk Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman The Library Theatre, Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre 1984 Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello Rina Yerushalmi Moshe Sternfeld Tal Itzhaki Kibbutzim College of Education 1985 The Island on Birds Street Uri Orlev Benjamin Tsemach Moshe Sternfeld Tal Itzhaki Orna Porat Children's Theater 1985 Coffee Please Nava Zuckerman Nava Zuckerman Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Tmu-na Theatre 1985 Selling Only Joan Holden Hagit Rekhavi Dan Chumley/Israel Gurion Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Neve Tzedek Theatre 1985 Temporary Separation Hillel Mittelpunkt Hillel Mittelpunkt Eytan Levy Tal Itzhaki Habima Theatre 1985 Cecilia, Christina, Cornelia and All the Rest Daniella Michaeli after Yona Wallach's poetry Daniella Michaeli Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Netta Gelfman Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre 1985 Oedisinbad Xenia Claviropolus Ada Ben-Nahum Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Orna Porat Children's Theater 1986 Rosmersholm Henrik Ibsen David Maayan Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1986 Mench Meier Franz Xaver Kroetz Gad Kaynar Yoram Falk Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Library Theatre 1986 From Fly to Elephant after Ayin Hillel Tal Omer Tal Omer Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tikki Productions 1986 Uga, Uga, Uga Roni Pisker Roni Pisker Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Matan – Beit Lessin Theater 1986 The Blast in Ahalan Street Daniella Carmi Hagit Rekhavi Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Orna Porat Children's Theater 1986 Train in Bavaria Malka Merin after Esther Fuchs Malka Merin Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre 1986 My Husband Shakespeare Simkha Spector Simkha Spector Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Alternativa Group 1987 Tully's Follies Lanford Wilson Michael Downes Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Library Theatre 1987 Blood Wedding Federico Garcia Lorca Irit Halperin and Hani Abu-Hamed Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tayibe Community Theatre 1987 Step on a Crack Susan Zeder Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Orna Porat Children's Theater 1988 Top Girls Caryl Churchill Rivka Meshulach Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1988 Benito Michael Kahana Michael Kahana Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Matan - Habima Theatre 1988 Vineyards Singing Company Yair Klinger Dani Lita'i Tal Itzhaki Vineyards Singing Company 1988 Day of Independence Show, Rishon LeZion Musical Director: Yair Klinger Dani Lita'i Tal Itzhaki Rishon LeZion 1988 Kiryat Malachi Youth Singing Company Zvia Huberman Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Kiryat Malachi Youth Singing Company 1988 Between Water and Water Yoram Falk after Yosef Haim Brenner Yoram Falk Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1988 Rat in the Skull Ron Hutchinson Dorit Yerushalmi Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Library Theatre 1988 Independence Night of Mr Israel Sheffi Avraham Raz Frida Rafael Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, Beersheba Theater 1988 The Hands of Galathea Michael Shancel Dorit Yerushalmi Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Library Theatre 1988 A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams Nicole Kassel Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1988 Balerina Arna Scoan Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1988 Wild Child Tammi Zar Daniella Michaeli Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Orna Porat Children's Theater 1989 Rashomon Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1989 Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Avraham Oz Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yehiel Orgal Haifa Theatre 1989 Ephraim Goes Back to the Army Yitzhak Laor Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Tzavta theater 1989 The Trip to the Island Ulay after Miriam Yalan-Stekelis Irit Vager Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Sunflower Theatre 1989 Gallows Humor Jack Richardson Dorit Yerushalmi Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Library Theatre 1989 Come and Go Yoni Lahav Dorit Yerushalmi Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tikki Productions 1989 Rosmersholm Henrik Ibsen Miriam Kainy Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Haifa Theatre 1989 You Can't Take It With You George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Haifa Theatre 1989 Top Girls Caryl Churchill Rivka Meshulach Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Library Theatre 1990 Peace Child Hannan Peled Music by David Gordon Yael Drouyannoff Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Peace Child 1990 Monsieur de Pourceaugnac Moliere Nathan Alterman Vardit Shalfy Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1990 The Parliament of Women after Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae Nisim Aloni Frida Rafael Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre 1990 Neaptide Sarah Daniels Tal Itzhaki Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Beit Zvi 1991 Chicken Soup Yair Tribelski Orly Wasserzug Tal Itzhaki Hassimta Theatre 1991 When the Omelette Touches the Salad Michael Morris-Reich Rivi Feldmesser-Yaron Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre 1992 The Magic Sandal after Metveiev Miki Mevorach Neta Oren Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Shadows Theatre 1992 Duet (This Property is Condemned and Moony's Kid Don't Cry) Tennessee Williams Vered Gilboa Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts 1992 Abeer Hagit Yaari Hagit Yaari Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre 1994 The Tempest William Shakspeare Orly Gross and Eugene Nacht Eugene Nacht Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa Festival of Children Theatre 1994 Boy's Life Howard Korder Yoav Katz Arthur Kogan Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1994 Fen Caryl Churchill Ohad Shahar Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1995 Man is Man Bertolt Brecht Amnon Achi-Naomi David Bergman Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1995 Montserrat Emanuel Robles Lillian Helman/Doron Tavori Vardit Shalfy Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Haifa Theatre 1995 Families: Sisters Donahue and The Parkers Geraldine Aron Tal Itzhaki Hanna Maron Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1995 Beautiful Thing Jonathan Harvey Tal Itzhaki Yoram Falk Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1995 Getting Out Marsha Norman Noia Lancet Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1995 Erica's Orchard Erica Knoller Amnon Rothstein Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Teatronetto Festival, Haifa Theatre 1995 Key Girl Shlomit Trigger-Haguel Hagit Rekhavi-Nicolayevski Hagit Rekhavi-Nicolayevski Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Hanni Productions 1995 Company (musical) George Furth and Stephen Sondheim Lyrics and music: Stephen Sondheim Meir Vardi Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1995 The Workshop Jean-Claude Grumberg Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1995 Ghost Song Alona Kimhi Alona Kimhi Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tzavta Theatre 1996 Antigone Sophocles Aharon Shabtai Vardit Shalfy Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Haifa Theatre 1996 Eskesta - Courtship Ruth Eshell Choreography Ruth Eshell Tal Itzhaki Eskesta Ethiopian Dance Theatre 1997 Voyages Shulamit Lapid Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Cameri Theater 1997 Roots Miriam Kayni Miriam Kayni Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Festival of Short Plays, Tzavta Theatre 1997 Ma Ni Ma Mima Joshua Sobol Ilan Toren Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Festival of Short Plays, Tzavta Theatre 1997 Qat'r-al-Nada Samih al-Qasim Nabeel Azar Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yoad Theatre, Kafr Rami 1997 The Crucible Arthur Miller Ilan Toren Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa University Theatre 1997 Terminal One, Dance Tamir Gens Choreography Tamir Gens Tal Itzhaki Bat-Dor Dance Company 1997 Eskesta – "Memories from the Village" Ruth Eshell Choreography Ruth Eshell Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Eskesta, Ethiopian Dance Company 1998 Ouri Bat 50 (Ouri 50 Years Old), Compiled by Er'ella Brown Sinai Peter Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Haifa University Theatre 1998 Extasy, Dance Berta Yampolsky Choreography Berta Yampolsky Tal Itzhaki Berta Yampolsky Israel Ballet 1998 And Alone We stayed Miriam Kayni Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa Festival of Children Theatre 1998 Another Day Songs by Rachel Shapira Moshe Tené Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tzavta Theatre 1998 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Ehud Manor Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Haifa University Theatre 1998 Leah's Boots after the poems of Leah Goldberg Hagit Rekhavi-Nikolaevski Hagit Rekhavi-Nikolaevski Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Orna Porat children's Theater 1999 Telemachus Clay Lewis John Carlino Tirtza Atar Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 1999 Epikorus, dance Tamir Gens Choreography Tamir Gens Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Bat-Dor Dance Company 1999 Medea, dance Berta Yampolsky Choreography Berta Yampolsky Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Israel Ballet 1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare T. Carmi Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa University Theatre, Open air Theatre at the Carmel forest 2000 The Conduct of Life Maria Irene Fornes Tal Itzhaki Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa University Theatre 2000 Fear and Sorrow in the BRD Franz Xaver Kroetz Ilan Toren Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa University Theatre 2000 Bag without Violence Tamir Gens Choreography Tamir Gens Tal Itzhaki Bat-Dor Dance Company 2000 The House of Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca Muneer Bakri Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Al Midan Theatre 2000 The Silver Tassie Seán O'Casey Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Beit Zvi 2001 Men in the Sun Ghassan Kanafani Muneer Bakri Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Kibbutzim College of Education 2001 Trojan Women Euripides Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa University Theatre 2001 A Bird Enrapt by Magic A Tribute to the poems of Zelda (poet) Ora Zitner Tal Itzhaki Tzavta Theatre 2001 Emile Habibi – I Stayed in Haifa A Tribute to Emile Habibi compiled by Siham Daoud Siham Daoud Tal Itzhaki Rappoport Auditorium, Haifa 2001 The Female Odd Couple Neil Simon Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa University Theatre 2002 Everybody Wants to Live Hanoch Levin Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa University Theatre 2002 Men in the Sun (Arab version) Ghassan Kanafani Muneer Bakri Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa University Theatre 2002 Letters to My Brother Yaki Mehraz Yaki Mehraz Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Nava Productions 2003 Neaptide Sarah Daniels Tal Itzhaki Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa University Theatre 2003 Cloud Nine Caryl Churchill Tal Itzhaki Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Haifa University Theatre 2003 Tough Love Motti Lerner Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Haifa Theatre 2003 Luggage Packers (English version) Hanoch Levin Michael Alfreds Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Minor Latham Playhouse, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York 2003 Telemachus Clay Lewis John Carlino Tirza Atar Etti Resnik Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Amir Brenner Akko Festival, Library Theatre 2004 Luggage Packers (Hebrew version) Hanoch Levin Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Haifa University Theatre 2004 Luggage Packers (Arab version) Hanoch Levin Ala Hlehel Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Haifa University Theatre 2004 Neighbors after Hanoch Levin Tal Itzhaki and Amit Gazit Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Minor Latham Playhouse, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York 2005 The Frog Prince, a dance Tamir Gens Choreography Tamir Gens Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Bat-Dor Dance Company, Camea Group 2005 Xandra compelled to speak Tal Itzhaki and Amit Gazit after Euripides/Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shakespeare, Jean Giraudoux, Christa Wolf, Mahmud Darwish, Arundhati Roy, Hanoch Levin, Bertolt Brecht, Aaron Sorkin et al. Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Minor Latham Playhouse, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York 2006 Clouds on A Mountain Way Orna Akad Orna Akad Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Al Midan Theatre 2007 The Lion and the Jewel Wole Soyinka Yaffa Shuster Yaffa Shuster Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Natela Theatre 2008 Ibn Khaldun Hisham Suliman Hisham Suliman Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Nazareth Fringe Theatre 2008 Gonny in the Kingdom of the Garbage Creatures Rimona Lapin Rimona Lapin Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tel Aviv University 2008 Him That Pisses Against the Wall Hama Tuma Yaffa Shuster Yaffa Shuster Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki The Interdisciplinary Arena, Jerusalem 2009 Jump Ayelet Moskowits-Weiss Shimon Levy Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tmu-na Theatre 2009 Herzl Said Iyad Barguthi Mouneer Bakri Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Al Lajun Theatre, Masrahid Festival 2010 Sun, Don't Go Away Ayman Agbaria Mouneer Bakri Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Ya'acov Sliv Nazareth Fringe Theatre 2010 The Island Athol Fugard Mouneer Bakri Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Al Midan Theatre 2011 Servant of Two Masters Carlo Goldoni Mouneer Bakri Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Firas Ruby Al Midan Theatre 2011 How Much Sea in the Sea Ayin Hillel Tal Omer Tal Omer Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Children Theatre 2011 Split Screen After Dahlia Ravikovitch and Naguib Mahfouz Tal Omer and Mouneer Bakri Tal Omer and Mouneer Bakri Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2011 Home Riad Masarwa Mouneer Bakri Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Al Midan Theatre 2012 The House of Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca Rivka Meshulach Mouneer Bakri Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Ya'acov Sliv Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2012 The Crucible Arthur Miller Ehud Manor Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2013 Ashes to Ashes/Mountain Language Harold Pinter Avraham Oz Avraham Oz Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2013 Krum Hanoch Levin Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2013 The Legendary Inikpi Emmy Idegu Lihi-Barzel-Melamed Yaffa Shuster Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman the African-Israeli Stage 2014 Neaptide Sarah Daniels Tal Itzhaki Amit Gazit Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2014 Good C. P. Taylor Avraham Oz Avraham Oz Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Yechiel Orgal Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2015 Arlecchino Leon Katz Nisim Aloni Ofira Laniado Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki and Noa Dotan Tal Itzhaki and Noa Dotan Judy Kupferman Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv THeatre 2015 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Paul Zindel Yaakov Shabtai Dor Peles Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2015 Women Talk Women Doreet Peled-Harpaz Doreet Peled-Harpaz Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Nizar Khamra Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2015 Heffetz Hanoch Levin Shalom Shmuelov Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Uri Rubinstein Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2015 Woyzeck Georg Büchner Yedidya Itzhaki, Dan Miron David Braslavi David Braslavi Tal Itzhaki Judy Kupferman Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2016 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Avraham Oz Avraham Oz Tal Itzhaki Timoteo Corelli Nizar Khamra Alfa Theatre, Tel Aviv 2017 Back River Rachel Shalita Eliran Caspi Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Eliran Caspi Teatronetto Festival, Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre 2017 The Violin Gili and Nimrod Shanit Gili and Nimrod Shanit Sharon Keren Tal Itzhaki Tmu-na Theatre 2017 Yevke Mulo Gojem Entenach Fruit Parada Tal Itzhaki Tazata Theatre 2017 The Boys Next Door Tom Griffin Gadi Inbar Dor Peles Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Nizar Khamra Alfa Theatre, Tel Aviv Theatre 2019 Landscape Harold Pinter Avraha Oz Avraham Oz Tal Itzhaki Tal Itzhaki Nizar Khamra The Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Theatre

Select publications

Tal Itzhaki, Beyond Concrete, American Theatre 2008. Tal Itzhaki,Ways of Unseeing: Glass Walls on the Main Stage, in: Susan Haedicke, Dee Heddon, A. Oz, E J Westlake (eds.), Political Performances: Theory and Practice, New York & Amsterdam, 2009. Tal Itzhaki, Theatre and Travel, Teatron 2010.(Hebrew) Tal Itzhaki Notes Concerning the PQ Changes, in: Sodja Lotker (ed.), Transformations of Prague Quadrennial from 1999 to 2015, Prague, 2017