Chu's lighting for Mlima’s Tale earned him the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Lighting in 2019 and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination in 2018. Also in 2018, he received an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design and a Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for Dangerous House. In 2009, Chu was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for his lighting of The Good Negro. ... read more
Vineyard, La Jolla Playhouse and Yale Rep productions of Indecent. Broadway: The Gin Game; The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess; The People in the Picture; Caroline, or Change (also Royal National Theater, London); Elaine Stritch: At Liberty (also National Tour, Old Vic London); Topdog/Underdog (Royal Court); Bells Are Ringing; Parade (directed by Hal Prince; Tony and Drama Desk nominations); Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk (also National Tour, Japan) and The Tempest. Recent: Grounded directed by Julie Taymor, The Library directed by Steven Soderbergh (The Public); La Mouette (Cour d'Honneur, Palais des Papes, Avignon Festival); Abigail's Party (Oslo National ... read more
Broadway: Venus in Fur, Anna in the Tropics. Other theatre: Orlando, Venus in Fur, New Jerusalem and Texts for Nothing (CSC); The Submission, Coraline the Musical, The Wooden Breeks (MCC); Henry V (New Victory, the Guthrie); Iphigenia 2.0 (Signature); Measure for Pleasure, Kit Marlowe, The Winter's Tale, Civil Sex and Pericles (NYSF); Macbeth, Coriolanus and Svejk (TFANA). Opera: Cyrano de Bergerac (La Scala, Met and Royal Opera); Les Troyens (Met); The Gambler (Opera Zuid);Steve Reich's Three Tales (international tour); Salome, Fidelio, Die Walkure and Das Rheingold (Washington Opera); Arsace II (SF Opera); Madame Butterfly (HGO andGrand Theatre de Geneve); The ... read more