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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 twice, most recently in 2024 for The Outsiders.




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 MacDevitt 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? MacDevitt 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, MacDevitt 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. MacDevitt 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.




Productions






= Broadway

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= Touring

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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

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The Book of Mormon – 2021




= Off-Broadway

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= The Metropolitan Opera

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Armida – 2010
Le comte Opry – 2011




Awards and nominations






= Tony Awards

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= Drama Desk Awards

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References






External links


Brian MacDevitt at the Internet Broadway Database

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• The Book of Mormon (musikal)
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• Tony Award for Best Lighting Design
• List of lighting designers
• List of Ithaca College alumni
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• The Coast of Utopia
• Death of a Salesman
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