While pursuing a degree in the fine arts in Southern California, Mr. Antaky turned his interests to the performing arts and in 1983 moved to San Francisco to study visual and theatrical design at San Francisco State University.

Since 1985 Mr. Antaky has created and collaborated on both scenic and lighting designs for all of the performing arts including Theater, Opera, Dance and Music. His work has been seen though out the United States as well as Europe, Canada, and Mexico.

Mr. Antaky’s recent opera designs include productions of “La Boheme” for Opera Pacific and the west coast Premiere of “Our Town” with Festival Opera for which he has also designed numerous other productions including “ Don Giovanni”, “Candide”, “Tosca” and “Un Ballo in Maschera”. For Opera San Jose he has created designs for their productions of “Barber of Seville”, “Un Ballo in Maschera” and “The Crucible”. And for Ensemble Parallel the production of the world premier of Lou Harrison’s “Young Caesar”.

He has also designed the lighting for the Utah Symphony’s concert productions of Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” and Peter Maxwell Davies “8 Songs for a Mad King” and is currently creating the lighting for their opera production of “La Cenerentola”.

His design history in dance includes many years as resident designer with such companies as Liss Fain Dance, Mark Foehringer Dance Project SF., Stephen Pelton Dance Theater, La Tania Flamenco, The San Francisco World Music Festival, Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company and Chitresh Das Dance Company. In addition Mr. Antaky has designed projects for Smuin Ballet, San Jose Dance Company, Flyaway Productions, Lines Contemporary Ballet Company, Karen Finley, Li Chiao-Ping Dance and Robert Moses Kin among many others.

Mr. Antaky’s Scenic and Lighting designs for the Cabrillo Music Festival from 1999 to 2001 include full stage productions of Bernstein’s “MASS”, Copland’s “Tender Land”, Phillip Glass’s “The Photographer” and Lou Harrison’s “Rapunzel”.

Additionally he has created all the visual designs for numerous productions of Bernstein’s “MASS” throughout the country, including Productions with The Promusica Chamber Orchestra, a concert version with the St. Lukes Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s production in 2003 and with the Oakland East Bay Symphony.

In 1993 he became a founding member of Shadowlight Productions, a company pioneering new techniques and designs dedicated to the exploration and performance of shadows.

Mr. Antaky is a Six-time nominee (1999 –2007) and two-time recipient of the Isadora Duncan award for outstanding visual design.