Yaron Abulafia

Over the past 17 years, Yaron has designed lighting for nearly 100 theatre and dance performances, installations, concerts and television shows internationally. His passion for lighting design developed after six years of painting and sculpture studies; a visual influence which is often distinguished in the characteristics of his designs.

Alongside his artistic career, he is completing a PhD at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) on the Semiotics and Poetics of Light in Contemporary Theatre. He holds a Masters degree (M.F.A.) in Scenography from the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, and B.A. in theatre studies from Tel Aviv University in Israel.

He has won First Prize for lighting design in a competition supported by PHILIPS for his work on Peer Gynt (Romania, 2008), and has been nominated for the Knight of Illumination 2011 for his work in Awakenings with Rambert Dance and for best lighting design for theatre for In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (Israel, 2011).