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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

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

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

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

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

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


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