Yair Vardi

Yair Vardi is a theater creator, curator and artistic director, lecturer, dramaturg, and lighting designer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Performance from Dartington College, England, and a master’s degree in Choreography from the Berlin University of the Arts.

He served as the artistic director of the “South of Multidisciplinary Arts Festival” in Ofakim from 2020 to 2024. He is the head of the creators track and a lecturer in the Department of Culture, Creation, and Production at Sapir Academic College. He also lectures at the Faculty of Arts at the Kibbutzim College and at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance from 2022 to 2024.

He curated the “March Hare” Festival at the Kelim Choreography Center in Bat Yam together with Anat Danieli during 2019-2020. He curated and served as the artistic director of the Tmuna Theater between 2012 and 2017. He was the artistic director of the dance festival “Intimadance” from 2013 to 2017.

In 2005, he initiated and founded the interdisciplinary performance festival “A-Genre” at Tmuna Theater and served as its curator from 2005 to 2017. As a dramaturg and artistic consultant, he has accompanied many artists and projects including Ruth Kanner, Yoram Carmi, Noa Dar, Natalie Zuckerman, Niv Shinfield, Oren Laor, Marina Baltov, Talia Hoffman, and others.

His works have been presented at Tmuna Theater, the Akko Festival, the Suspended in Place Festival, The Home Theater, Mandel Cultural Center, Kelim Center Bat Yam, Oper Studio (Berlin), Nilo Center (Iceland), and various festivals in Berlin and England.

As a lighting designer, Vardi has designed lighting for many festivals and artists across a broad spectrum of art forms in galleries, theaters, public spaces, and stages around the world.