Brian MacDevitt

Brian MacDevitt is a lighting designer for theatrical productions. He has worked extensively on Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as touring, Regional theatre, and Industrial productions. A Long Island, New York, native, Brian graduated from SUNY Purchase with a degree in Lighting Design from the Department of Design/Technology of the Division of Theatre Arts & Film. After graduation Brian spent a decade honing his craft with Off Broadway and other productions, and also developed a reputation as a teacher of design. He began teaching at Purchase as a visiting professor in 1986. He continued to balance his teaching career while breaking into Broadway in 1994 with What's Wrong With This Picture? Brian started to achieve notice with the Terrence McNally play Love! Valour! Compassion! in 1995. His success continued through the 1990s, and eventually culminated with a Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in 2002 for the revival of Into the Woods. He won again in 2005 for The Pillowman, in 2007 for The Coast of Utopia, sharing the award with Kenneth Posner and Natasha Katz (The three also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for Utopia.) Brian won the Tony in 2009 for his lighting of the play "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" and again in 2011, for the musical "Book of Mormon".

In fall of 2009 season, Brian is designed the revival of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound and David Mamet's new play Race. In the 2010 season he designed A Behanding in Spokane, Fences, Armida at The Metropolitan Opera, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. In 2011 he has designed The Book of Mormon, Le Compte Ory at The Metropolitan Opera and The House of Blue Leaves. He is proud to have four former students designing on Broadway this season, Kenneth Posner, Jeff Croiter, Jason Lyons, and Jennifer Schriever.

Brian is currently an Associate Professor of lighting design at the University of Maryland, College Park, starting in the fall of 2009.^[1]

References

↑ http://blog.livedesignonline.com/liveblog/2009/05/19/brian-macdevitt-guest-blogger-broadway-lighting-master-classes/

External links

Brian MacDevitt at IBDB

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design (2001–2004)

Peter Kaczorowski (2001) Brian MacDevitt (2002) Nigel Levings (2003) Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer (2004)

Complete list (1970–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2004) (2005–2025 (Play)) (2005–2025 (Musical))

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design Musical (2005–2025)

Christopher Akerlind (2005) Howell Binkley (2006) Kevin Adams (2007) Donald Holder (2008) Rick Fisher (2009) Kevin Adams (2010) Brian MacDevitt (2011) Natasha Katz (2012) Hugh Vanstone (2013) Kevin Adams (2014) Natasha Katz (2015)

Complete list (1970–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2004) (2005–2025 (Play)) (2005–2025 (Musical))

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design Play (2005–2025)

Brian MacDevitt (2005) Mark Henderson (2006) Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner, and Natasha Katz (2007) Kevin Adams (2008) Brian MacDevitt (2009) Neil Austin (2010) Paule Constable (2011) Jeff Croiter (2012) Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer (2013) Natasha Katz (2014) Paule Constable (2015)

Complete list (1970–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2004) (2005–2025 (Play)) (2005–2025 (Musical))

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design (2001–2025)

Paul Anderson (2001) T.J. Gerckens (2002) Nigel Levings (2003) Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher (2004) Christopher Akerlind (2005) Richard G. Jones (2006) Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner, and Natasha Katz (2007) Kevin Adams (2008) David Hersey (play) / Rick Fisher (musical) (2009) Neil Austin (2010) David Lander (2011) Brian MacDevitt (2012) Justin Townsend / Daniel Winters (2013) Christopher Akerlind (2014) Paule Constable (2015)

Complete list (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

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