Design team
Set and costume design
Miriam Buether
Lighting design
Yaron Abulafia
Set and costume designs include A Couple of Poor Polish Speaking Romanians (Soho Theatre), Cinderella (Göteborg Opera Ballet Company. Sets only), Hartstocht (Introdans in The Netherlands), Sacrifice (Welsh National Opera. Costumes only), The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh Festival and Lyric Hammersmith), My Child and The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Royal Court Downstairs), Generations (Young Vic), Long Time Dead (Plymouth Theatre Royal), Pool (No Water) (Plymouth Theatre Royal, Lyric Hammersmith, Frantic Assembly), Realism (National Theatre of Scotland), Unprotected (Traverse/Liverpool Everyman), The Bee (Soho Theatre), Trade (RSC and Soho Theatre), The Death of Kinghoffer (Edinburgh International Festival and Scottish Opera), After the End (Traverse Theatre), Way to Heaven (Royal Court), Tenderhooks (Canadian National Ballet), Platform (ICA), The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Lyceum Edinburgh and Tron Theatre Glasgow), The Allure of Distant Worlds (Fundaçâo Calouste Gulbenkian Lisbon and tour), Guantanamo Honor Bound to Defend Freedom (Tricycle Theatre, West End, New York and San Francisco), Track (Scottish Dance Theatre), The Dumber Waiter and Other Pieces (Oxford Playhouse and tour), Body of Poetry (Komische Opera Berlin), People Next Door (Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Theatre Royal Stratford East and New York), Red Demon (Young Vic and tour of Japan), Bintou and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Arcola Theatre), Possibly Six (Grand Ballet de Canada/Theatre Maisonneuve Montreal), Eskimo Sisters (Southwark Playhouse),
Trained in Costume Design at Akademie für Kostüm Design in Hamburg and in Theatre Design at Central St Martins. She was overall winner of the 1999 Linbury Prize.
Projects for 2008 will include the Young Vic, Royal Court, Royal Opera House and a Didy Veldman Dance in Cedar Lake New York.
For the past twelve years, Yaron Abulafia has designed lighting for theatre and dance performances, installations, concerts and television shows internationally.
Now resident in The Netherlands, he is working towards a PhD at Rijks University of Groningen, The Netherlands. The research, which incorporates both theory and practice, deals with light in contemporary theatre and examines the poetics and meaning-making of light within the contemporary theatrical event. For one of his recent light designs in theatre (Peer Gynt, Romania, 2008) he has won the first prize of light design supported by PHILIPS.
He holds a Masters degree (MFA) in Scenography from the Frank Mohr Instituut in Groningen and BA in theatre studies (Design track) from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. His passion for light design developed after six years of painting and sculpture studies in Israel (also at Tel-Aviv museum for the arts); a visual influence which is often distinguished in the characteristics of his designs.