Born in Russia, she immigrated to Israel in 1991. Her work includes Nose (Opera Boston),  Nabucco (Greek National Opera), The Queen of Spades (Dallas Opera), Das Rheingold and Die Walküre (Mariinsky Theatre), Boris Godunov (Houston Grand Opera and San Francisco Opera), a world premieres  of Sheriff's Golem 13 (Prague National Opera) and Shenhav’s Half Moon Tale (Israeli Opera), Mozart and Salieri and Der Schauspieldirektor (Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center), Orfeo ed Euridice and Pierrot Lunaire (Kefar Blum Festival, Israel), La Serva Padrona, Pimpinone and Bastienne and Bastienna (Chamber Opera Group, Israel), world premieres of Shohat’s The Happy Prince and Zorman’s The Inn of Spirits (Tel Aviv Museum of Art) and Porat's Animal Farm, and others. She has also directed revivals of War and Peace and Boris Godunov at the Opera Bastille, Khovanschina at the ENO, Queen of Spades at the Covent Garden, Geneve Opera and Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, The Little Magic Flute and L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Israeli Opera and others.She created poetic music theatre performances including Letters to Orpheus and Nightingale and Rose (Fringe Theatre Center, Tel Aviv) and staged plays readings at the Kameri Theatre and Beit Lessin Theatre, Tel Aviv.