Brian MacDevitt

Brian MacDevitt is a lighting designer and educator. He has worked extensively on Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as touring, Regional theatre, and Industrial productions. He won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for his work on the 2002 Broadway revival of ''Into The Woods.'' He also won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play three times and the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical once for ''The Book of Mormon'' in 2011.

Early life and education

A Long Island, New York, native, MacDevitt went to Ward Melville High School in East Setauket. Afterwards, he attended SUNY Purchase and graduated with a degree in Lighting Design from the Department of Design/Technology of the Division of Theatre Arts & Film.

Career

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''.)

In fall of 2009, Brian began working as an Associate Professor of lighting design at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is still teaching.

He also 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 designed ''The Book of Mormon, '' Le'' comte Ory'' at The Metropolitan Opera and '' The House of Blue Leaves''. 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''.

He has had several students go on to also design Broadway productions, including Kenneth Posner, Jeff Croiter, Jason Lyons, and Jen Schriever.

Personal life

He has a large extended family, but by far his favorite first cousin once removed is Thomas MacDevitt.

Productions

Broadway

* ''What's Wrong With This Picture?'' – 1994
*'' Love! Valour! Compassion!'' – 1995
*''Master Class'' – 1995
*''Summer and Smoke'' – 1996
*''Sex and Longing'' – 1996
*''Present Laughter'' – 1996
*''Side Show'' – 1997
*''Proposals'' – 1997
*''The Diary of Anne Frank'' – 1997
*''Wait Until Dark'' – 1998
*''Night Must Fall'' – 1999
*'' True West'' – 2000
*'' The Ride Down Mt. Morgan'' – 2000
*''The Dinner Party'' – 2000
*''Judgment at Nuremberg'' – 2001
*'' The Invention of Love'' – 2001
*''A Thousand Clowns'' – 2001
*''Major Barbara'' – 2001
*''Urinetown'' – 2001
*'' The Women'' – 2001
*'' Morning's at Seven'' – 2002
*''Into the Woods'' – 2002
*''Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune'' – 2002
*''Tartuffe'' – 2003
* ''Nine'' – 2003
*'' Long Day's Journey Into Night'' – 2003
*''The Retreat from Moscow'' – 2003
*'' Henry IV (Parts 1 and) 2)'' – 2003
*''Fiddler on the Roof'' – 2004
*''Match'' – 2004
*''A Raisin in the Sun'' – 2004
*'''night, Mother'' – 2004
*''Pacific Overtures'' – 2004
*''Good Vibrations'' – 2005
*''The Pillowman'' – 2005
*''Sweet Charity'' – 2005
*''Absurd Person Singular'' – 2005
*'' The Color Purple'' – 2005
*''The Wedding Singer'' – 2006
*'' The Coast of Utopia (Part 1 - Voyage) – 2006
*''The Vertical Hour'' – 2006
*'' Inherit the Wind'' – 2007
*''Cymbeline'' – 2007
*''A Catered Affair'' – 2008
*'' 13'' – 2008
*'' Speed-the-Plow'' – 2008
*'' American Buffalo'' – 2008
*''You're Welcome America'' – 2009
* '' Blithe Spirit'' – 2009
*''Joe Turner's Come and Gone'' – 2009
*'' Accent on Youth'' – 2009
*''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' – 2009
*'' Race'' – 2010
*'' A Behanding in Spokane'' – 2010
*''Fences'' – 2010
*'' Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' – 2010
*''The Book of Mormon'' – 2011
*'' The House of Blue Leaves'' – 2011
*''The Mountaintop'' – 2011
*''Chinglish'' – 2011
*''Death of a Salesman'' – 2012
*''Betrayal'' – 2013
*''A Raisin in the Sun'' – 2014
*''This Is Our Youth'' – 2014
*'' A Delicate Balance'' – 2014
*'' Fish in the Dark'' – 2015
*'' Blackbird'' – 2016
*''The Front Page'' – 2016
*''Carousel'' – 2018
*''The Waverly Gallery'' – 2018
*''The Minutes'' – TBD
*''Plaza Suite'' – TBD

Touring

* '' Gigi'' (1984-1985)
* '' Can-Can'' (1988-1989)
* '' Angels in America: Millennium Approaches'' (1994-1996)
* ''Master Class'' (1996-1997)
* ''Urinetown'' (2003-2004)
* '' The Color Purple'' (2007-2010)
* ''The Book of Mormon'' Tours
** Latter Day Tour (2012-2016)
** Jumamosi Tour (2012-2020)

West End

* ''The Book of Mormon'' – 2021

Off-Broadway

*''Splendid Mummer'' – 1988
*''The Waves'' – 1990
*''Subfertile'' – 1990
*'' Light Shining in Buckinghamshire'' – 1991
*''Fayebird'' – 1991
*''Shmulnik's Waltz'' – 1991
*''Man, Woman, Dinosaur'' – 1992
*''And'' – 1992
*''Candide'' – 1992
*'' Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)'' – 1992
*''Three Hotels'' – 1993
*''Krapp's Last Tape'' – 1993
*''Later Life'' – 1993
*''The Maids'' – 1993
*''Family Secrets'' – 1993
*'' First Lady Suite'' – 1993
*'' The Illusion'' – 1994
*''The Mayors of Boy Town'' – 1994
*''The Arabian Nights'' – 1994
*''The Triumph of Love'' – 1994
*''Dog Opera'' – 1995
*''Northeast Local'' – 1995
*''Master Class'' – 1995
*''Blue Window'' – 1996
* ''Overtime'' – 1996
*''Nude Nude Totally Nude'' – 1996
*''A Line Around the Block'' – 1996
*''By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea'' – 1996
*''Henry V'' – 1996
*''God's Heart'' – 1997
*''Mizlansky Zilinsky or 'Schmucks – 1998
*'' Corpus Christi'' – 1998
*'' The Ride Down Mt. Morgan'' – 1998
*''Captains Courageous'' – 1999
*'' East is East'' – 1999
*''The Taming of the Shrew'' – 1999
*''The Exact Center of the Universe'' – 1999
*'' An Experiment with an Air Pump'' – 1999
*''Fuddy Meers'' – 2000
*''The Time of the Cuckoo'' – 2000
*''Lydie Breeze (Parts 1 and 2)'' – 2000
*'' Spinning Into Butter'' – 2000
*''Juno and the Paycock'' – 2000
*'' Comic Potential'' – 2000
*''Resident Alien'' – 2001
*''Urinetown'' – 2001
*''Speaking in Tongues'' – 2001
*'' Homebody/Kabul'' – 2001
* ''Tuesdays with Morrie'' – 2002
*'' Blue/Orange'' – 2002
*'' Kimberly Akimbo'' – 2002
*'' Lone Star Love'' – 2004
*'' Dog Sees God'' – 2005
*''Family Secrets'' – 2006
*''The House in Town'' – 2006
*''Pig Farm'' – 2006
*''Our Leading Lady'' – 2007
*''The Receptionist'' – 2007
*''The Seagull'' – 2008
*''Hold On to Me Darling'' – 2016

The Metropolitan Opera

* ''Armida'' – 2010
* '' Le comte Opry'' – 2011

Awards and nominations

Tony Awards

Drama Desk Awards

References

External links

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