Production

Matthew Antaky
Lighting Designer

Matthew Antaky makes his debut with Opera San José as lighting designer for The Crucible. Since 1985, Mr. Antaky has created both scenic and lighting designs for the performing arts including theater, opera, dance and music.

Currently, Mr. Antaky is the lighting designer for Festival Opera’s production of Un ballo in Maschera and is the scenic and lighting designer for their production of Candide. Recent premiere productions include Mark Foehringer Dance Project’s Diadorum, the Balinese dance and music production of Cudamani, Liss Fain Dance Companies Home Season Eclipse of the Soul and The Oakland East Bay Symphony’s production of Bernstein’s MASS at the Paramount Theater. Additionally, he has designed productions of the MASS for the Dallas Symphony, Promusica Chamber Orchestra, St. Luke’s Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and for the Cabrillo Music Festival. Mr. Antaky also created the scenic and lighting designs for Cabrillo Music Festival’s full stage productions of Copland’s Tender Land, Phillip Glass’s Photographer and Lou Harrison’s Rapunzel.

His design history includes many years with such companies as Stephen Pelton Dance Theater, Liss Fain Dance Company, La Tania Flamenco, Lily Cai Dance Company, Chitresh Das Dance Company, The San Francisco World Music Festival, Lines Contemporary Ballet Company, Flyaway Productions, A Traveling Jewish Theater, Karen Finley and The Joe Goode Performance Group, among many others. 

Mr. Antaky is a five-time nominee and two-time recipient of the Isadora Duncan award for Outstanding Visual Design.

For more information please visit matthewantakydesign.com