MATTHEW ANTAKY: RESUME
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Extensive installation, theatrical, scenic, and lighting designs.
Extensive national & international touring.
EXPERIENCE:
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS EVENT
Lighting Designer (2009-2019)
Scenic and Lighting Designer (2013)
OPERA / THEATER:
OPERA PARALLÈLE
Scenic and/or Lighting Designer
"Trouble in Tahiti" (2018) LD
"Les Enfant Terrible" (2017) LD
"Flight" (2017) LD "The Light House" (2016) LD
"Champion" (2016) LD
"Heart of Darkness" (2015) LD
"Dead Man Walking" (2015) LD
"Anya 17" (2014) LD
"Mahagonny Songspiel / Mamelle" (2014) LD
"Ainadamar" (2013) SD/LD
"The Great Gatsby" (2012) SD/LD
"Four Saints in Three Acts" (2011) SD/LD
"Orphee" (2011) LD
"Wozzeck" (2010) SD/LD
"Young Caesar" (2007) LD
UTAH OPERA
Lighting Designer
”Romeo & Juliet (2018)
"Pagliacci / Gianni Schicchi (2018)
"La Boheme" (2017)
"La Cenerentola" (2008)
FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY
Scenic and/or Lighting Designer
”Carmen” (2023)
”Norma” (2022)
”Heggie Tryptic” (2021)
”Susannah” (2019)
"The Seven Deadly Sins / Pagliacci" (2017)
"Abduction From the Seraglio" (2016)
"Ariadne Auf Naxos" (2015)
"Otello" (2013)
"La Traviata" (2011)
"Most Happy Fella" (2011)
"Madame Butterfly" (2010)
"Faust" (2009)
"Il Trovatore" (2008)
"Our Town" (2007)
"Don Giovanni" (2006)
"Tosca" (2006)
"Candide" (2005)
"Un Ballo In Maschera" (2005)
LIVERMORE VALLEY OPERA
Lighting Designer
"Otello” (2022)
FESTIVAL NAPA
Scenic and Lighting Designer
”Don Pasquale” (2023) SD/LD
"Elixir of Love” (2022) LD
MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE
Scenic and Lighting Designer "Out of the Darkness" (2016)
The words of a Survivor / For a Look or a Touch
RORK OPERA/MUSIC PROJECT
Scenic and Lighting Designer "Angel Heart" (2015)
SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Lighting Designer
”Die Fleidermaus” (2021)
”Le Nozze Di Figaro” (2019)
"Glory Denied" (2018)
"The Portrait of Manon / Suor Angelica" (2017)
"Don Giovanni" (2016)
"The Elixir of Love" (2015)
OPERA PACIFIC
Lighting Designer
"La Boheme" (2007)
OPERA SAN JOSE
Scenic and Lighting Designer
"Barber of Seville" (2006)
Lighting Designer
"Cosi Fan Tutte" (2009)
"The Crucible" (2005)
"Un Ballo In Maschera" (2005)
COMPOSERS INC.
Scenic and Lighting Designer
"Middle March in Spring" (2015)
"The Dawn Makers" (2009)
HIDDEN VALLEY OPERA
"Don Giovanni"
Lighting Designer
2013
ST. MARY’S COLLEGE
Scenic and/or Lighting Designer
”Impure Thoughts” (2018) SD
”Lorca In A Green Dress” (2006) SD/LD
”Alabama Rain” (2005) SD/LD
”The Brothers Karamazov” (2003) LD
Z SPACE THEATER
"A Round-Heeled Woman"
Lighting Designer
2010
KRAFTYWORKS PERFORMANCE
"Hyper-real"
Scenic Designer
2010
PRAGUE, CR / UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
"Lorca in a Green Dress"
Scenic and Lighting Designer
2007
CABRILLO MUSIC FESTIVAL
Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer
"Rapunzel" (2003)
"The Photographer" (2003)
"The Tender Land" (2002)
"Mass" (2001)
KAREN FINLEY
"Shut Up and Love Me"
Lighting Designer
San Francisco production
2002
SHADOWLIGHT PRODUCTIONS
Co-founder - Lighting, Visual, and Technical Designer
"In Xanadu"
"Sida Karia"
"The Wild Party"
"Wayang Listrik"
"The Tempest" at A.C.T.
All Home Season productions and National Touring
1993-2000
DANCE:
LISS FAIN DANCE COMPANY
Resident Installation, Scenic, Lighting and Video Designer
Installation / Lighting / Video Designs:
”Here. Take it.” (2022)
”Close The Door Slowly” (2019)
"I Still Don't know and Never Will" Re-mount (2018)
"I Don't know and Never Will" (2018)
"Known Once" (2017)
"Tacit Consent" (2016)
"Your Story Was This" (2015)
"A Space Divided" (2015)
"The Imperfect is Our Paradise" (2014)
"After the Light" (2014)
"The Water is Clear and Still" (2012)
"The False and True Are One" (2010)
Proscenium Scenic and Lighting Designs:
"How It Ends" (2010)
"Speak of Familiar Things" (2010)
"Out of the Silence" (2009)
"Looking, Looking" (2008)
"At the Time" (2008)
"Crossing" (2008)
"Flood" (2007)
"When Still" (2006)
"Line Between Night and Day" (2006)
"Unknown Land" (2006)
"River" (2006)
"Eclipse of the Soul" (2005)
"Quarry" (2003)
"Frames 1 - 3" projects (1999-2002)
"Sojourn at Alexandria" (1998)
"Crystal Desert" (1997)
ODC DANCE COMPANY
Scenic and Lighting Designer
"Giant" (2016)
"The Invention of Wings" (2015)
"Dead Reckoning" (2015)
"Triangulating Euclid" (2013)
"Breathing Underwater" (2012)
"Cut Out Guy" (2012)
"Listening Last" (2011)
"Labor of Love" (2010)
"Grasslands" (2009)
"A Walk in the Woods" (2008)
"Hunters and Gatherers" (2008)
FLYAWAY PRODUCTIONS
Lighting Designer
"The Right To Be Believed" (2017)
"Grace and Delia Are Gone" (2016)
"Needles to Threads" (2015)
"Multiple Mary/Invisible Jane" (2014)
"Niagara Falling" (2012)
"Singing Praises" (2010)
"The Ballad of Polly Ann" (2009)
"The Billboard Project" (2007)
"The Grim Arithmetic of Water" (2006)
SJ DANCE CO.
Lighting Designer
All Home Season Repertory
2007 - 2023
SINTONIA FLAMENCO
”Tattooed”
Lighting Designer
2019
ALIVE & WELL PRODUCTIONS
”When Ash”
Scenic and Lighting designer
2019
IMAGERY DANCE
Lighting Designer
"Sketch 8" (2018)
"White Noise" (2010)
"Static" (2009)
FESTIVAL DEL SOLE - NAPA VALLEY
Dance Gala
Lighting Designer
2015
BAD UNKL SISTA
"First Breath/Last Breath"
Lighting Designer
2012
ZHUKOV DANCE
Lighting Designer
"Dreams Recycled" (2011)
"Shared and Divided" (2010)
"Cinematic" (2010)
"Pioneer Plaques" (2009)
RAWDANCE
"Hiding in the Spaces Between"
Scenic and Lighting Designer
2011
LITTLE SEISMIC DANCE COMPANY
"Beasts"
Scenic and Lighting Designer
2011
LI CHIAO-PING DANCE
Lighting Designer
"Home Season" (2011)
"Evolution" (2010)
"Women Dancing" (2009)
"Venous Flow" (2007)
OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET
"Finding/Almost"
Scenic and Lighting Designer
2009
NATIONAL BALLET OF PERU
"Las Viscitudes"
Lighting Designer
2008
ROBERT MOSES KIN DANCE COMPANY
Lighting Designer
"Helen" (2012)
"The Cinderella Principle" (2010)
Home Season (2008)
CHITRESH DAS DANCE COMPANY INSTITUTE
Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer
”Mantram” (2021)
"Darbar" (2012)
"India Jazz Suites" (2005)
"Sampurnam" (2004)
"East as Center" (2003)
"Pancha Jati" (2002)
"Sadhana" (2000)
CAMINOS FLAMENCOS
Resident Lighting Designer
All Home Season Repertory
1999-2011
SMUIN BALLET
"Objects of Curiosity"
Scenic and Lighting Designer
2007
MARK FOEHRINGER DANCE PROJECT/SF
Lighting Designer
"Alice in Wonderland" (2018 - 2021)
"Nutcracker Sweets" (2016- 2021) Lighting
Scenic and Lighting Designer
"In Fugue" (2008)
"enterlazo" (2008)
"Bitter Fruit" (2007)
"Duetto's" (2006)
"Diadorim" (2005)
NEW WORLD FLAMENCO FESTIVAL
Lighting Designer
UC Irvine, CA
2008
FELLOW TRAVELERS PERFORMANCE GROUP
Lighting Designer
All Home Season Repertory
1997-2011
STEPHEN PELTON DANCE THEATER
Resident Scenic & Lighting Designer
"The Bosom of Abraham" (2007)
"Harm's Way" (2005)
"The Hurdy Gurdy Man" (2003)
"September for Sale" (2003)
"Not Here" (2002)
"Animal Acts" (2000)
"America's Songbook" (1996)
"Waltzs for the Day Room" (1993)
LILY CAI DANCE COMPANY
Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer
"String Calligraphy" (2003)
"Southern Girl" (2002)
"She" (2001)
"Begin From Here" (2000)
"Bamboo Girl" (1999)
All Home Season Repertory and National Touring
LA TANIA FLAMENCO DANCE CO.
Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer
1993- 2002
“Passage of the Muse” (2002)
“Abrazo" (2001)
All Home Season Repertory
All national and international Touring
MUSIC:
VANESSA VO
”Mekong: Soul” (2023)
Kennedy Center for the Arts
Scenic and Lighting Designer
BEAR VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Lighting Designer
2021 / 2022
STUMPTOWN PRODUCTIONS
”MASS” (2018)
Lighting Designer
RORK MUSIC/OPERA PROJECT
“Angel Heart”
Scenic and Lighting Designer
2013 - 2015
JENNIFER BEREZAN
“Songs For All Beings”
Scenic, Lighting and Video Designer
2013 / 2017
SAN FRANCISCO LYRIC OPERA
“The Little Match Girl Passion”
Lighting and Video Designer
2012
UTAH SYMPHONY
Lighting Designer
“MASS” (2009)
“8 Songs for a Mad King” (2007)
“Bluebeards Castle” (2006)
NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
“Rewind”
Lighting Designer
2007
OAKLAND SYMPHONY
Scenic and Lighting Designer
”Bodies on the Line” (2023)
“Enchanted Forest” (2010)
“Show Boat” (2009)
“Follies” (2008)
“Porgy and Bess” (2007)
“Mass” (2005)
SAN FRANCISCO WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL
All festival stage, lighting and Video designs
Resident Scenic & Lighting Designer
2000 - 2012
PROMUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
“Mass”
Scenic & Lighting Designer
Southern Theater, Columbus, OH
2004
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
“Mass”
Scenic & Lighting Designer
Dallas Symphony Hall
2003
ST. LUKES ORCHESTRA AND THE COLLEGIATE CHORALE
“Mass”
Lighting Designer
Carnegie Hall
2002
Additional Design Experience:
A Traveling Jewish Theater, New Pickle Circus, Word for Word, and Hangman Theater.
Lines Contemporary Ballet, Joe Goode Performance Group, Diablo Ballet, and Janice Garrett Dancers.
Awards:
“Isadora Duncan Award”
Nine-time nominee and four-time recipient for Outstanding Visual Design
Assistant design positions:
Rick Goodwin (corporate, industrial and installation design)
Scenic Design Assistant (1996 – 1998):
Craig Miller (Dance and Opera design)
Lighting Design assistant (1991 – 1993):
Education:
1981 - 1983
Ventura College, Ventura, CA
Fine Arts and Theater Arts
1984 - 1985
San Francisco State University
Fine Arts and Theater Arts Design