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Donald Holder is an American lighting designer in theatre, opera and dance based in New York. He was born in 1962. He has been nominated for fourteen Tony Awards, winning the 1998 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for The Lion King . He won a second Tony in 2008 for the revival of South Pacific . [1] His lighting design for Paradise Square has been nominated for a 2022 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical . [2] Additional Broadway credits include: Tootsie, Anastasia, Kiss Me Kate, Fiddler on the Roof, The Bridges of Madison County, She Loves Me, The Cherry Orchard, The King and I,Big Fish, Annie (2012 Broadway revival) , Golden Boy , Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark , Arcadia , The Motherfucker With The Hat , Promises, Promises , Les Liaisons Dangereuses , Radio Golf , The Little Dog Laughed , Movin' Out , The Times They Are a-Changin' , A Streetcar Named Desire , Holiday , Cyrano de Bergerac , and Prelude to a Kiss . [1] Off-Broadway credits include Jeffrey and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told . He was the theatrical lighting designer for seasons one and two of the NBC-Universal television series Smash .

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Holder studied forestry at the University of Maine, where he graduated from in 1980. He also worked for the Portland Stage Company in Maine. [3] He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama and is a student of Jennifer Tipton. He was the head of lighting design from 2006 to 2010 in the School of Theater at the California Institute of the Arts, and is currently Head of Lighting Design at the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. [4]

Awards and nominations

Award Nominations
YearProductionAwardCategoryOutcome
1997Juan DarienTony AwardBest Lighting DesignNominated
Drama Desk AwardOutstanding Lighting DesignNominated
1998 The Lion King Tony AwardBest Lighting DesignWon
Drama Desk AwardOutstanding Lighting DesignWon
2003 Movin' Out Tony AwardBest Lighting DesignNominated
Drama Desk AwardOutstanding Lighting DesignNominated
2004The Violet HourDrama Desk AwardOutstanding Lighting DesignNominated
2005 Gem of the Ocean Tony AwardBest Lighting DesignNominated
Drama Desk AwardOutstanding Lighting DesignNominated
A Streetcar Named Desire Tony AwardBest Lighting Design of a PlayNominated
2008 Les Liaisons Dangereuses Tony AwardBest Lighting Design of a PlayNominated
South Pacific Tony AwardBest Lighting Design of a MusicalWon
2010 Ragtime Tony AwardBest Lighting Design of a MusicalNominated
2013 Golden Boy Tony AwardBest Lighting Design of a PlayNominated
2014 The Bridges of Madison County Tony AwardBest Lighting Design of a MusicalNominated
2015 The King and I Tony AwardBest Lighting Design of a MusicalNominated
2016 Oslo Tony AwardBest Lighting Design of a PlayNominated
2018 My Fair Lady Tony AwardBest Lighting Design of a MusicalNominated
2022 Paradise Square Tony AwardBest Lighting Design of a MusicalNominated

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References

  1. 1 2 "Donald Holder". IBDB: Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
  2. ↑ Sherman, Rachel (9 May 2022). "Who's Nominated?". NY Times. NY Times. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  3. ↑ Three with Maine ties get Tony nod Portland Press Herald, May 5, 2010
  4. ↑ "Donald Holder". California Institute of the Arts. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
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