2009 Tony Award Nominees: 'Best Lighting Design Of A Play'
By: Charlie Piane May. 07, 2009
Nominations in 27 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards were announced today by Tony Award Winners Cynthia Nixon and Lin-Manuel Miranda from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. To view the complete list of nominees, click here.
The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.
The American Theatre Wing's 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7, 2009 (8-11pm, live EST, PT time delay) on the CBS Television Network. For more information visit tonyawards.com.
BroadwayWorld Presents The 2009 Tony Award Nominees:
'Best Lighting Design of a Play'
David Hersey (Equus)
David Hersey has designed the lighting for hundreds of plays, musicals, operas and ballets. His many awards include Tonys for Best Lighting Design for Evita, Cats and Les Misérables; the Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Burning Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night; Tony nominations for The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby, Starlight Express, Miss Saigon and Oklahoma!; and Olivier nominations for Oliver!, Glengarry Glen Ross, Martin Guerre, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, My Fair Lady and The Coast of Utopia. His latest designs to open in London's West End include Porgy and Bess and Equus. He is currently enjoying a second circumnavigation and has flown in from Fiji to light Equus on Broadway.
Broadway: A Man for All Seasons, I Am My Own Wife (DD, OCC noms.; also national tour, London, Dublin, Venezuela, Australia), Dirty Blonde (DD nom.; also national tour, London), Golden Child. Selected Off-Broadway: Edward Albee's Occupant, Fran's Bed, Going to St. Ives, King Lear, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Public, Signature and Vineyard Theatre. Regional includes Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Goodman, Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, St. Louis Muny, The Old Globe. International: Tokyo, UK, South America, Australia and Singapore. Film: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
Brian MacDevitt (Joe Turner's Come and Gone)
LCT: The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Cymbeline, The House in Town, Henry IV, Morning's at Seven, The Invention of Love (Outer Critics Circle and Hewes Awards), Time of the Cuckoo, God's Heart, Sex and Longing, Northeast Local. Recent NYC: Blithe Spirit, You're Welcome America with Will Ferrell, Dr. Atomic at the Met, Speed-the-Plow, 13 - A New Musical, American Buffalo, Puncture at The Chocolate Factory. Future: Nearly Ninety, a new Merce Cunningham piece. Dance: Nancy Bannon's The Pod Project, The Joffrey Ballet, ABT, 25 years with Tere O'Connor Dance, Lar Lubovitch, et al. Recipient: Tonys, Obie, Bessie, Outer Critics Circle, Hewes Awards, Drama Desk, et al. Film: Cradle Will Rock. Member: Naked Angels.
Hugh Vanstone (Mary Stuart)
Hugh Vanstone has designed lighting for plays, musicals, and operas in London, New York and around the world. He has received three Olivier Awards for his work in London, most recently for Pacific Overtures (Donmar). New York credits: Shrek (Broadway), Boeing-Boeing (Longacre); Spamalot (for which his lighting was Tony nominated); Bombay Dreams (Broadway); Life (x) 3 (Circle in the Square); Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet (BAM); The Graduate (Plymouth); Follies (Belasco); Blast! (Broadway); The Unexpected Man (Promenade); The Blue Room (Cort); Closer (Music Box); Art (Royale).
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