Ben-Zion Munitz
Born in Petach Tikva, he studied lighting design in London. Munitz has worked as a lighting designer and planner for theater buildings since 1966. He also performed in several plays in Bimat HaSakhkanim (“actors’ stage”) and since then designed the lighting for all theaters in Israel, as well as for dance and opera companies.
In 1975, Munitz designed the lighting for Batsheva for the first time, in Apocalypse by Oshra Elkayam Ronen. He went on to design for many other company dances, including The Burning Ground (1975); Fiery Chariot, Album Leaves, Poems of Ecstasy, and Echoes of a Night Sky (1976); The Garden of Kali, Mountain of Spices, As I Wish, Dream, The Dybbuk, Rainbow Round My Shoulder, Voices, and Cinderella (1977); Spanish Mime and Through the City Streets (1978); Like a Rolling Rock (1981); and Vigil in Jerusalem (1983).
Munitz was a professor of lighting design and the head of the Stage Design Program of the Tel Aviv University Department of Theater Arts, and many of Israel’s lighting designers are among his students.