Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play explained

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.

Winners and nominees

2000s

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

2010s

Year	Production	Nominees
2010 ^[6]
	Red	Neil Austin
	ENRON	Mark Henderson
	Fences	Brian MacDevitt
	Hamlet	Neil Austin
2011 ^[7]
	War Horse	Paule Constable
	Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo	David Lander
	Jerusalem	Mimi Jordan Sherin
	The Merchant of Venice	Kenneth Posner
2012 ^[8]
	Peter and the Starcatcher	Jeff Croiter
	Death of a Salesman	Brian MacDevitt
	Other Desert Cities	Kenneth Posner
	The Road to Mecca	Peter Kaczorowski
2013 ^[9]
	Lucky Guy	Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher
	Golden Boy	Donald Holder
	The Nance	Japhy Weideman
	The Testament of Mary	Jennifer Tipton
2014 ^[10]
	The Glass Menagerie	Natasha Katz
	The Cripple of Inishmaan	Paule Constable
	Machinal	Jane Cox
	Of Mice and Men	Japhy Weideman
2015 ^[11]
	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Paule Constable
	Airline Highway	Japhy Weideman
	Skylight	Natasha Katz
	Wolf Hall Parts One & Two	Paule Constable and David Plater
2016 ^[12]
	Long Day's Journey into Night	Natasha Katz
	The Crucible	Jan Versweyveld
	The Humans	Justin Townsend
	A View from the Bridge	Jan Versweyveld
2017 ^[13]
	Indecent	Christopher Akerlind
	A Doll's House, Part 2	Jennifer Tipton
	Jitney	Jane Cox
	Oslo	Donald Holder
2018 ^[14]
	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child	Neil Austin
	Angels in America	Paule Constable
	Farinelli and the King	Paul Russell
	The Iceman Cometh	Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher
	Junk	Ben Stanton
2019 ^[15]
	Ink	Neil Austin
	The Ferryman	Peter Mumford
		Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer
	Network	Jan Versweyveld and Tal Yarden
	To Kill a Mockingbird	Jennifer Tipton

2020s

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

Multiple wins

3 Wins

• Neil Austin
• Brian MacDevitt
• Natasha Katz

2 Wins

• Paule Constable

Multiple nominations

6 Nominations

• Brian MacDevitt
• Paule Constable

5 Nominations

• Neil Austin
• Donald Holder
• Natasha Katz

4 Nominations

• Jane Cox

3 Nominations

• Jiyoun Chang
• Jon Clark
• Jane Cox
• Peggy Eisenhauer
• Jules Fisher
• Mark Henderson
• Kenneth Posner
• Ben Stanton
• Jennifer Tipton
• Japhy Weideman
• Jan Versweyveld

2 Nominations

• Christopher Akerlind
• David Lander
• Hugh Vanstone

See also

• Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design
• Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design
• List of Tony Award-nominated productions

External links

• Tony Awards Official site
• Tony Awards at Internet Broadway database Listing
• Tony Awards at broadwayworld.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2005 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 11, 2023.
2. Web site: 2006 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 11, 2023.
3. Web site: 2007 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 11, 2023.
4. Web site: 2008 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 11, 2023.
5. Web site: 2009 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 11, 2023.
6. Web site: 2010 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
7. Web site: 2011 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
8. Web site: 2012 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
9. Web site: 2013 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
10. Web site: 2014 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
11. Web site: Tony Nominations 2015: Full List . April 28, 2015 . . Variety . August 10, 2023.
12. Web site: 2016 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
13. Web site: 2017 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
14. Web site: 2018 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
15. Web site: 2019 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
16. Web site: 2020 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
17. Web site: 2022 Tony Awards Nominees . . . August 10, 2023.
18. Web site: 2023 Tony Awards Nominees . . May 2, 2023 . . August 10, 2023.
19. Web site: 2024 Tony Awards Nominees . . April 30, 2024 . . April 30, 2024.