Tal Itzhaki

Tal Itzhaki was born in 1956 in Tel Aviv

Tal Itzhaki was born on March 1, 1956, in Tel Aviv. Her father, Dr. Yedidya Itzhaki, was an architect and taught Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan University. Her mother, Rina Itzhaki, was an educator at the Kibbutzim College of Education.

She studied at the HaMidrasha School of Art, where her teachers included Raffi Lavie and Yair Garbuz. She then earned a degree in theatre design from Tel Aviv University in 1982. She is working on a doctorate in theatre at the same university.

Itzhaki has designed sets, costumes, puppets and masks for about 250 shows in Israel and abroad. She founded the theatre design program at the University of Haifa and headed it from 1996 to 2004. From 2003 to 2005 she was a visiting artist at Columbia University in New York.

She was among the founders of the Fringe Centre in Tel Aviv and served as general secretary of AMBI, the Israeli stage designers' association. She curated Israeli exhibitions at the Prague Quadrennial and translated many plays into Hebrew. She is married to theatre professor Avraham Oz.