| Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play | |
| Awarded For: | Best Lighting Design in a Play |
| Presenter: | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
| Location: | New York City |
| Holder: | Jane Cox for Appropriate |
| Website: | TonyAwards.com |
This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play for outstanding Lighting design of a play. The award was first presented in 2005 after the category of Best Lighting Design was divided into Lighting Design in a Play and Lighting Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award.
| Year | Production | Nominees |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 [1] | ||
| The Pillowman | Brian MacDevitt | |
| Doubt | Pat Collins | |
| Gem of the Ocean | Donald Holder | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | ||
| 2006 [2] | ||
| The History Boys | Mark Henderson | |
| Awake and Sing! | Christopher Akerlind | |
| Faith Healer | Mark Henderson | |
| Three Days of Rain | Paul Gallo | |
| 2007 [3] | ||
| The Coast of Utopia | Natasha Katz, Brian MacDevitt and Kenneth Posner | |
| Coram Boy | Paule Constable | |
| Inherit the Wind | Brian MacDevitt | |
| Journey's End | Jason Taylor | |
| 2008 [4] | ||
| The 39 Steps | Kevin Adams | |
| Ann G. Wrightson | ||
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Donald Holder | |
| Macbeth | Howard Harrison | |
| 2009 [5] | ||
| Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Brian MacDevitt | |
| Equus | David Hersey | |
| Mary Stuart | Hugh Vanstone | |
| 33 Variations | David Lander | |
| Year | Production | Nominees |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 [16] | ||
| A Christmas Carol | Hugh Vanstone | |
| The Inheritance | Jon Clark | |
| Slave Play | Jiyoun Chang | |
| A Soldier's Play | Allen Lee Hughes | |
| The Sound Inside | Heather Gilbert | |
| 2022 [17] | ||
| The Lehman Trilogy | Jon Clark | |
| for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf | Jiyoun Chang | |
| Hangmen | Joshua Carr | |
| Macbeth | Jane Cox | |
| The Skin of Our Teeth | Yi Zhao | |
| 2023 [18] | ||
| Life of Pi | Tim Lutkin | |
| A Christmas Carol | Ben Stanton | |
| Death of a Salesman | Jen Schriever | |
| A Doll's House | Jon Clark | |
| Fat Ham | Bradley King | |
| Leopoldstadt | Neil Austin | |
| Prima Facie | Natasha Chivers | |
| 2024 [19] | ||
| Appropriate | Jane Cox | |
| An Enemy of the People | Isabella Byrd | |
| Grey House | Natasha Katz | |
| Prayer for the French Republic | Amith Chandrashaker | |
| Stereophonic | Jiyoun Chang | |