Artistic Director

An award winning lighting designer, writer and performer, Itai is the founder of The Elbow Theatre in Vancouver, for whom he co-wrote and performed in A Very Narrow Bridge (Chutzpah 2016), This Is Not A Conversation (Belfry, 2017), Hyperlink (Firehall, 2017) and Soldiers of Tomorrow (Push Festival, 2023) 

Itai’s first one man show: How to Disappear Completely (The Chop), premiered at the 2010 Chutzpah Festival and had 25 remounts in 21 cities. It won the best director award at the 2013 Summerworks Festival, and was shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation and the Brighton Fringe Award at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and to the first prize at the 2014 Dublin Fringe.  

Itai has designed over 350 shows for theatre and dance companies in 46 cities around the world. He won six Jessie Richardson Awards, the ADC’s Jack King Award, a Dora Mavor Moore Award, a Winnipeg Theatre Award, Victoria’s Spotlight Choice Award, a Guthrie Award and the Design Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival. He was shortlisted to the prestigious Siminovitch Prize in 2018 and 2024.