Matthew Antaky Scenic and Lighting Design
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  SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
  • Extensive Theatrical Scenic and Lighting Designs
  • Extensive National & International Touring
  • Production Resource Management and Personnel Supervision
  • Drafting, Rendering, Sketching, and Model Building

EXPERIENCE:

2009 – 2011
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
Lighting Designer

Opera / Theater:

2007 – 2011
ENSEMBLE PARALLEL
Scenic and Lighting Designer
“Four Saints in Three Acts” (2011)
“Wozzeck” (2010)
Lighting Designer
“Orphee” (2011)
“Young Caesar” (2007)

2010
Z Space Theater
Lighting Designer
“A Round-Heeled Woman”

2005 – 2011
FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY
Scenic and Lighting designer
“Madame Butterfly” (2010)
“Faust” (2009)
“Our Town” (2007)
“Don Giovanni” (2006)
“Candide” (2005)
Lighting Designer
“La Traviata” (2011)
“Most Happy Fella” (2011)
“Il Trovatore” (2008)
“Tosca” (2006)
“Un Ballo In Maschera” (2005)

2009
COMPOSERS INC.
Scenic and Lighting Designer
“The Dawn Makers”

2005 – 2009
OPERA SAN JOSE“
Lighting Designer
Cosi Fan Tutte (2009)
Scenic and Lighting designer
“Barber Of Seville” (2006)
Lighting Designer
“The Crucible” (2005)
“Un Ballo In Maschera” (2005)

2010
KRAFTYWORKS PERFORMANCE
Scenic Designer
“Hyper-real”

2008
UTAH OPERA
Lighting Designer
“La Cenerentola”

2007
OPERA PACIFIC
Lighting Designer
“La Boheme”

2007
Prague, CR / University Of Michigan
Scenic and Lighting Designer
“Lorca in a Green Dress”

2002
KAREN FINLEY
Lighting Designer
“Shut Up and Love Me”
San Francisco production

1999 – 2001
CABRILLO MUSIC FESTIVAL
Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer
Bernstein’s “Mass”, Copland’s “Tender Land”, Phillip Glass’s “The Photographer” and
Lou Harrison’s “Rapunzel”.

1993 – 2000
SHADOWLIGHT PRODUCTIONS
Co-founder - Lighting, Visual and Technical Designer
“In Xanadu”, “Sida Karia”, “The Wild Party”, Wayang Listrik” and “The Tempest” at A.C.T.
All Home Season productions and National Touring

Dance:

2008 – 2010
ODC DANCE COMPANY
Lighting Designer
“Listening Last” (2011)
“Labor of Love” (2010)
“Grasslands” (2009)
“A Walk in The Woods” (2008)
“Hunters and Gathers” (2008)

1998 – 2011
LISS FAIN DANCE COMPANY
Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer
“The False and True are one” (2011)
“How it Ends” (2010)
“Speak Of Familiar Things (2010)
“Out of the Silence” (2009)
“Looking, Looking” (2008)
”At The Time”
“Crossing”
”Flood” (2007)
“When Still” (2006)
“Line Between Night and Day”
“Unknown Land”
“River”
“Eclipse of the Soul” (2005)
“Quarry” (2003)
Designer/Director
“Frames 1 – 3” projects (1999-2002)
“Sojourn at Alexandria” (1998)
“Crystal Desert” (1997)

2009
OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET
Scenic and Lighting Designer
“Finding/Almost” – Amy Seiwert

2009 – 2011
Zhukov Dance
Lighting Designer
“Dreams Recycled” (2011)
“Shared and Divided” (2010)
“Cinematic” (2010)
“Pioneer Plaques” (2009)

2011
RAW DANCE
Scenic and Lighting Designer
“Hiding in the Spaces Between”

2011
LITTLE SIESMIC DANCE COMPANY
Katie Faulkner
Scenic and Lighting Designer
“Beasts”

2009
IM’IJ-RE Dance – Amy Seiwert
“White Noise” (2010)
“Static” (2009)

2007 – 2011
LI CHIAO-PING DANCE
Lighting Designer
“Home Season” (2011)
“Evolution” (2010)
“Women Dancing” (2009)
“Venous Flow” (2007)

2008
NATIONAL BALLET OF PERU
Lighting Designer
“Las Viscitudes”

2008 – 2010
ROBERT MOSES KIN DANCE COMPANY
Lighting Designer
“The Cinderella Principle” (2010)
Home season (2008)

2004 – 2010
FLYAWAY PRODUCTIONS
Lighting Designer
“Singing Praises” (2010)
“The Ballad Of Polly Ann (2009)
“The Billboard Project” (2007)
“The Grim Arithmetic of Water”

2007 – 2011
SJ DANCE CO.
Lighting Designer
All Home Season Repertory

1999 – 2011
CAMINOS FLAMENCOS
Resident Lighting Designer
All Home Season Repertory

2007
SMUIN BALLET
Scenic and Lighting Designer
“Objects of Curiosity”

2004 – 2008
MARK FOEHRINGER DANCE PROJECT/SF
Scenic and Lighting Designer
“In Fuge” and “enterlazo” (2008)
“Bitter Fruit” (2007)
“Diadorim” (2005)
“Duetto’s” (2006)

2008
NEW WORLD FLAMENCO FESTIVAL
Lighting Designer
Irvine, CA

1997 – 2009
FELLOW TRAVELERS PERFORMANCE GROUP
Lighting Designer
All Home Season Repertory

1993 – 2007
STEPHEN PELTON DANCE THEATER.
Resident Scenic & Lighting Designer
“Waltz’s for the Day Room”, “Americas songbook”, “Animal Acts”, “Not Here”, “September For Sale”, “The Hurdy Gurdy Man”, “Harms Way” and “The Bosom of Abraham”

1999 – 2003
LILY CAI DANCE COMPANY
Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer
“String Calligraphy”, “Southern Girl”, “She”, Begin from Here” and “Bamboo Girl”
All Home Season Repertory and National Touring

2000 – 2005
CHITRESH DAS DANCE COMPANY
Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer
"Sadhana", “Pancha Jati”, “East as Center”, “Sampurnam” and “India Jazz Suites”

1993 – 2002
LA TANIA FLAMENCO DANCE CO.
Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer
“Passage of the Muse” (2002)
“Abrazo” (2001)
All Home Season Repertory
All national and international Touring

Music:

2006 – 2009
UTAH SYMPHONY
Lighting Designer
“MASS” (2009)
“8 Songs for a Mad King” (2007)
“Bluebeards Castle” (2006)

2007
NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Lighting Designer
“Rewind”

2005 – 2010
OAKLAND EASTBAY SYMPHONY
Lighting Designer
“Enchanted Forest” (2010)
“Show Boat” (2009)
“Follies” (2008)
“Porgy and Bess” (2007)
“Mass” (2005)

2000 – 2011
SAN FRANCISCO WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL
Resident Scenic & Lighting Designer
All festival stage and lighting designs including projections,
scenic elements and decorations

2004
PROMUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Scenic & Lighting Designer
“Mass” – Southern Theater, Columbus, OH

2003
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Scenic & Lighting Designer
“Mass” - Dallas Symphony Hall

2002
ST. LUKES ORCHESTRA AND THE COLLEGIATE CHORALE
Lighting Designer
“Mass” – Carnegie Hall

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”.
Seven-time nominee and four-time recipient for Outstanding Visual Design

ASSISTANT DESIGN POSITIONS:
Scenic Design Assistant (1996 – 1998):
Rick Goodwin (corporate, industrial and installation design)

Lighting Design assistant (1991 – 1993):
Craig Miller (Dance and Opera design)

EDUCATION:
1981 – 1983     Ventura Junior College, Fine Arts and Theater Arts
1984 – 1985     San Francisco State University, Fine Arts and Theater Arts Design