Lap Chi Chu is a
New York City and
Los Angeles based lighting designer known for his Off-Broadway works.
Career
Off Broadway
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Teaching
Chu taught at
California Institute of the Arts from 2001–2020. He is currently a professor and the Head of Lighting at the
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Personal life
Chu married
Rebecca Wisocky in
Boston on October 10, 2015.
[Rebecca Wisocky]
Twitter, February 4th, 2015.
Awards and nominations
Chu's lighting for ''Mlima’s Tale'' earned him the
Lucille Lortel Award for Best Lighting in 2019 and an
Outer Critics Circle Award
The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. They are presented by the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of New York theater writers for out-of-town newspa ...
nomination in 2018. Also in 2018, he received an
Obie
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by ''The Village Voice'' newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City. In September 2014, the awards were jointly presented and administered with the A ...
for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design and a Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for ''Dangerous House''. In 2009, Chu was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for his lighting of ''The Good Negro''.
References
External links
Lap Chi Chu Website
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Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from New York (state)
People from Los Angeles
Year of birth missing (living people)