Born
in Baltimore, moved to Israel in 1975, lived in a trailer home on a Galilee
mountaintop while serving as a drill sergeant in the IDF.
Involved in theater since 1980, Uri has worked with numerous theater
& dance companies & schools, is a former member of Academy for the
Israel Theatre Prize, & a founding member of A.M.B.I.- Association of
Israeli Stage Designers. From 1990-96 resident lighting designer/technician for the
Jerusalem Khan Theater, in which capacity he served as chief electrician for the
Israeli-Palestinian production of Romeo & Juliet both in Israel and
on three European tours. Uri has
been technical director for the Tzavta Theatre Club and the Gerard Behar Center
in Jerusalem, and the Baltimore Theatre Project in Maryland, USA.
He has toured with Israeli & French companies in Europe & North
America. Until last year taught
stage lighting at Emunah College in Jerusalem and the Kibbutz Seminar in Tel
Aviv. Presently living with his wife in Paris,
Uri continues to design lighting for various theatre & dance companies in
both Israel & France, tours France with several productions as technical
director (regisseur), & consults on theatre planning & architectural
lighting projects. Web site- www.lightdesign.co.il
Productions
for which Uri has designed lighting in recent years include:
In
France- Laura Herts-
Electric
Lazy Land- Festival du Rire; Won
Woman Show; Cie Caracole- Bouche Bée; Continent II- La musica deuxième; Le livre de Christophe Colombe; Kilometer Zero- Marion Davies and the Moon; Ecole Supérieure d'Art Dramatique de la Ville de Paris- CSTWERTSKST de Amnon Beham; Le Grand Celeste- circus, Paris. In New York- LaMama
ETC- It
Turns; Creation. In Israel- Habimah Israel National Theatre- Bash;
Little Drama; (Teatronetto First Prize); Jerusalem Khan Theatre-
Transient Shadow (nominated Israel Theatre Prize for light
design); Rubber Merchants; Mollie du Sable; Dinner; Zone Libre; The Mountain
& The Night; Side by Side by Sondheim; Be’er Sheva Theatre-
Master of Two Servants; Haifa Theatre- Before the Bride
Suffocates; Goodbye & Good Riddance; Suzanne Dellal Dance Centre,
Tel Aviv- The Left-Handed Woman- Tamar Borer; Cloche- Elite
Hyman;
Tel
Aviv Fringe Theatre- Hallo?; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love;Wooly
Dog;Farnheim (Du-Oman First Prize); Oil on Cloth (Israel
Theatre Prize- Best of Fringe 2000; Sometimes Elephants Pass Here; Theatre Mekomi- Alley of White Chairs (Akko Festival First Prize
’98); Jerusalem Capital Theatre- Guys and Dolls; Jerusalem
New Music Ensemble- Whirlpools- Israel Festival; Agadot- New
York International Festival of the Arts.