Brian MacDevitt ’80
Brian MacDevitt ’80 is a five-time Tony® Award-winning lighting designer.
Amongst the nearly 70 Broadway shows Brian designed are Blackbird, directed by Joe Mantello, starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams, and Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Other Broadway highlights include, A Fish In The Dark written by and starring Larry David, Death of a Salesman directed by Mike Nichols starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington.
He designed The Book of Mormon and received his fifth Tony Award for Best Lighting.
For the MET Opera, MacDevitt designed Enchanted Island, Dr. Atomic et al. He also designed, Sucker Punch at the Studio in DC and The Maryland Opera Studio’s Miss Havisham’s Fire and Postcards from Morocco.
As a director, Brian directed last season’s Between Riverside and Crazy at Studio Theater in DC; he co-directed Spring Awakening The Musical with Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig at The Clarice for TDPS, and a production of Proof at Theater Three in New York.
Awards / Residencies
Tony® Awards
Category |
Year |
Show |
*Best Lighting Design of a Musical (with Hana S. Kim) |
2024 | The Outsiders |
Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | 2018 | Carousel |
Best Lighting Design of a Play | 2012 | Death of a Salesman |
*Best Lighting Design of a Musical | 2011 | The Book of Mormon |
Best Lighting Design of a Play | 2010 | Fences |
*Best Lighting Design of a Play | 2009 |
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone |
*Best Lighting Design of a Play | 2007 |
The Coast of Utopia |
Best Lighting Design of a Play | 2007 |
Inherit the Wind |
Best Lighting Design of a Play | 2006 |
The Color Purple |
*Best Lighting Design of a Play | 2005 |
The Pillow Man |
Best Lighting Design | 2004 |
Fiddler on the Roof |
Best Lighting Design | 2004 |
Henry IV |
Best Lighting Design | 2003 |
Nine |
*Best Lighting Design | 2002 |
Into the Woods |
*Bold=Winner
Outer Critics Circle Award
Category |
Date |
Show |
Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | 2022 | The Minutes |
Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | 2012 | Death of a Salesman |
*Outstanding Lighting Design | 2007 | The Coast of Utopia |
Outstanding Lighting Design | 2005 | The Pillowman |
Outstanding Lighting Design | 2004 | Fiddler on the Roof |
Outstanding Lighting Design | 2003 | Nine |
*Outstanding Lighting Design | 2001 | The Intention of Love |
Outstanding Lighting Design | 1999 | Night Must Fall |
*Bold=Winner
Drama Desk Awards
Category |
Year |
Show |
Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | 2018 | Carousel |
*Outstanding Lighting Design | 2012 | Death of a Salesman |
*Outstanding Lighting Design | 2006 | The Coast of Utopia |
Outstanding Lighting Design | 2003 | Henri IV |
*Outstanding Lighting Design | 2001 | The Intention of Love |
*Outstanding Lighting Design | 1999 | An Experiment with an Air Pump |
Outstanding Lighting Design | 1995 | Love! Valour! Compassion! |
Outstanding Lighting Design | 1993 | Three Hotels |
*Bold=Winner
The Hewes Awards
Category |
Year |
Show |
*Hewes Design Award | 2012 | Death of a Salesman |
*Special Achievement in Design | 2007 | The Coast of Utopia |
*Lighting Design | 2003 | Nine |
*Lighting Design | 2003 | Long Day’s Journey Into Night |
*Lighting Design | 2003 | Frankie And Johnny In The Clair De Lune |
Lighting Design | 2001 | The Intention of Love |
*Bold=Winner
The Lucille Lortel Awards
Category |
Year |
Show |
Outstanding Lighting Design | 2002 | Urinetown |
*Outstanding Lighting Design | `1997 | By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea |
Obie Awards
*Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design / 1994
*Bold=Winner