Felice Ross was born and studied lighting design in the USA. She now lives in Israel. She has designed the lighting for many theatre, opera and dance productions as well as art installations in Europe, Israel, Korea and the USA, including The Seagull (Chekhov), Pygmalion (Shaw), Dangerous Liaisons (Laclos), A Servant for Two Masters (Goldoni), The Good Soldier Schweik (Hašek), The Blood Knot (Fugard), Festen (Vinterberg) in Israel; Cleansed and 4.48 Psychosis (Kane), The Tempest and Richard II (Shakespeare), The Bachae (Euripides), Krum (Levin), The Dybbuk (Ansky and Krall), Angels in America (Kushner), (A)pollonia, Koniec, and Opowieści afrykańskie według Szekspira (Warlikowski) for various companies in Poland; as well as Proust's In Search of Lost Time (Schauspiel Bonn), Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Nice), Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities (Schaubuhne Berlin), Bovell's Speaking in Tongues and Mishima's Madame de Sade (Toneelgroep Amsterdam), Shakespeare's Macbeth (Schauspielhaus Hanover), The Bachae and Labiche's L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine (Poreia Theatre Athens), Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (Teatre Odeon Paris).
She has designed lighting for the most prestigious venues globally: Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv (Rossini's Le Barbier de Séville, Menotti's The Medium, Tchaikovsky's Onegin, Verdi's La traviata, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore); Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera (Verdi's Otello and Don Carlo, Tchaikovsky's Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Penderecki's Ubu Rex, Berg's Wozzeck, Moniuszko's Halka, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman); Washington National Opera (Giordan's Andrea Chenier); Poznań Opera House (Mozart's Così fan tutte); Roma Musical Theatre; Warsaw (Polanski's Dance of the Vampires); La Monnaie in Brussels (Cherubini's Medee, Verdi's Macbeth, Berg's Lulu); Bayerische Staatsoper (R. Strauss's Eugene Onegin and Die Frau ohne Schatten); National Opera in Paris (Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, Wagner's Parsifal, Janáček's The Makropulos Case, Szymanowski's King Roger – the two latter co-produced with Teatro Real, Madrid); Palau de les Arts, Valencia (Onegin and the ballet El Amore Brujo by Manuel de Falla); Staatsoper, Berlin (Gordon's A Rake's Progress); Teatro Real in Madrid (Poppea e Nerone by Warlikowski, Alceste by Gluck), Welsh National Opera (Puccini's Manon Lescaut), Third World Bunfight in Cape Town (Macbeth); National Theatre in Prague (Salome by R. Strauss), Savonlinna Festival in Finland (La traviata). She has collaborated with Israeli choreographer Barak Marshall on: Emma Goldman's Wedding, Doda Leach, and Rooster, and with Korean choreographer Misook Seo (Seo Company) on the play A Table. In 2018 she made her debut at the Royal Opera House, London, working on Krzysztof Warlikowski's production of Janáček's From the House of the Dead.
