Wikipedia / Brian MacDevitt
Wikipedia / 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 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
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
Tartuffe – 2003
Nine – 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 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
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 – 2022
Plaza Suite – 2022
The Outsiders - 2024
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
Fayebird – 1991
Shmulnik's Waltz – 1991
Man, Woman, Dinosaur – 1992
And – 1992
Candide – 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
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
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
Metropolitan OperaThe Metropolitan Opera
Armida – 2010
Le comte Opry – 2011
Awards and nominations
Tony AwardsTony Awards
Drama Desk AwardDrama Desk Awards
Outer Critics Circle AwardsOuter Critics Circle Awards
References
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