Nitzan Rafaeli, set designer, was born in Israel. He graduated from the stage design department at the Tel Aviv University. He designs sets from theatre and opera productions and designs exhibitions. In the last two years he is production manager at the Israeli Opera. Among his many theatre design credits are The Orchard and A Different Dream at the Beer Sheva Theatre, Simple Story at the Yiddishspiel, Mayumana in New York and many other productions for local theatre companies. For the Israeli Opera he has designed the sets for Carmen (Bizet).