LAP CHI CHU lighting design
Designs works (Chronological): Theater/Opera/Music/Dance
Production Director Venue
Upcoming: An Ordinary Muslim (PREMIERE) dir: Jo Bonney New York Theater Workshop (by Hammaad Chaudry) Mlima’s Tale (PREMIERE) dir: Jo Bonney The Public Theater, NY (by Lynn Nottage) Ironbound dir: Tyne Rafaeli Geffen Playhouse, CA Bordertown dir: Diane Rodriguez Pasadena Playhouse, CA
2017 The Wolves (PREMIERE) dir: Lila Neugebauer Mitzi Newhouse Theater, NY (by Sara Delappe) Archduke (PREMIERE) dir: Giovanna Sardelli Mark Taper Forum, CA (by Rajiv Joseph) Describe the Night (PREMIERE) dir: Giovanna Sardelli The Alley Theater, TX, (by Rajiv Joseph) The Atlantic Theater, NY Oedipus El Rey dir: Chey Yew The Public Theater, NY At the Old Place (PREMIERE) dir: Jaime Castaneda La Jolla Playhouse, CA (by Rachel Bonds) Constellations dir: Giovanna Sardelli Geffen Playhouse, CA Actually dir: Tyne Rafaeli Geffen Playhouse, CA (by Anna Ziegler) Once dir: Kent Nicholson South Coast Rep, CA TRANSlations (PREMIERE) dir: Jo Bonney American Repertory Theater, MA God Looked Away dir: Robert Allen Ackerman Pasadena Playhouse, CA King Charles III dir: David Muse Shakespeare Theatre, Washington D.C.
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2016 Father Comes Home From the Wars dir: Jo Bonney Mark Taper Forum, CA (by Suzan Lori Parks) (PREMIERE) The Wolves (PREMIERE) dir: Lila Neugebauer NYSF, Playwright’s Realm@The Duke, NY (by Sara Delappe) Barbecue dir: Coleman Domingo Geffen Playhouse, CA (by Robert O’Hara) King Charles III dir: David Muse American Conservatory Theater , CA Seattle Rep, WA, Future Thinking (PREMIERE) dir: Lila Neugebauer South Coast Rep, CA (by Eliza Clark)
Christmas Carol dir: Adam Immerwahr The McCarter Theater, NJ Stage Kiss dir: Bart Delorenzo Geffen Playhouse, CA Amadeus dir: Kent Nicholson South Coast Rep, CA Dream Girls dir: Joel Ferrel Dallas Theater Center, TX The Body of an American (PREMIERE) dir: Jo Bonney Hartford Stage, CT, Primary Stages, NY (by Dan O’Brien) Disgraced dir: Susan Booth The Alliance Theatre, GA The City of Conversation dir: Michael Wilson Wallis-Annenberg , CA
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2015 Lost Girls dir: Jo Bonney MCC NY (by John Pollono) Guards at the Taj dir: Giovanna Sardelli Geffen Playhouse, CA (by Rajiv Joseph) (Ovation Award Nomination) Blueprints to Freedom (PREMIERE) dir: Lucie Tiberghien La Jolla Playhouse, CA (by Michael Benjamin Washington) KC Repertory Father Comes Home From the Wars dir: Jo Bonney American Repertory Theater, MA (by Suzan Lori Parks) (PREMIERE) Switzerland dir: Mark Brokaw Geffen Playhouse, CA (by Joanna Murray-Smith) After All the Terrible Things I do dir: Peter Dubois Huntington Theater, MA The 12 (book by Robert Schenkkan) dir: Richard Seyd Denver Center, CO (music by Neil Berg) (Henry Award for Outstanding Lighting Nomination)
Mr. Wolf dir: David Emmes South Coast Rep, CA (by Rajiv Joseph) How to be a Rock Critic dir: Jessica Blank The Kirk Douglas Theater/CTG, CA Love and Information dir: Casey Stangl American Conservatory Theater , CA
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2014 The Orphan of Zhao dir: Carey Perloff American Conservatory Theater , CA La Jolla Playhouse, CA Death of the Author (PREMIERE) dir: Bart Delorenzo Geffen Playhouse, CA (by Steven Drukman) Five Mile Lake (PREMIERE) dir: Daniella Topol South Coast Rep, CA (by Rachel Bonds) Father Comes Home From the Wars dir: Jo Bonney The Public Theater, NY (by Suzan Lori Parks) (PREMIERE) Appropriate dir: Liesl Tommy The Signature Theater, NY (by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) The Light in the Piazza dir: Kent Nicholson South Coast Rep, CA Trudy and Max in Love (PREMIERE) dir: Lila Neugebauer South Coast Rep, CA (by Zoe Kazan)
2013 The Mountaintop dir: Giovanna Sardelli Actor’s Theater Louisville, KY Small Engine Repairs (PREMIERE) dir: Jo Bonney MCC NY (by John Pollono) Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam dir: Robert Egan The Kirk Douglas Theater/CTG, CA St. Jude Stop.Reset. (PREMIERE) (by Regina Taylor) dir: Regina Taylor The Signature Theater, NY Romeo and Juliet dir: Shana Cooper Cal Shakes, CA Ms Julie (PREMIERE) dir: Jo Bonney Geffen Playhouse, CA (adapted by Neil LaBute) The Royale (by Marco Ramirez) dir: Daniel Aukin The Kirk Douglas Theater/CTG, CA (Ovation Award Nomination) The Fantastiks dir: Amanda Dehnert South Coast Rep, CA
The Parisian Woman dir: Pam MacKinnon South Coast Rep, CA (by Beau Willimon) Raisin in the Sun dir: Liesl Tommy Huntington Theater, MA A Delicate Balance dir: Emily Mann The McCarter Theater, NJ
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2012 Other Desert Cities dir: Robert Egan Mark Taper Forum, CA Coney Island Christmas (PREMIERE) dir: Bart Delorenzo Geffen Playhouse, CA The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety dir: Jaime Castaneda Dallas Theater Center, TX Lombardi dir: Casey Stangl Cleveland Playhouse/ Arizona Theater Company Emotional Creature (by Eve Ensler) dir: Jo Bonney Sag Harbor Productions at The Signature, NY Berkeley Rep, CA The Convert (PREMIERE) dir: Emily Mann The McCarter Theater, NJ (by Danai Gurira) The Goodman Theater, IL (Ovation Award for Best Lighting) The Kirk Douglas Theater/CTG, CA Cloudlands (PREMIERE) dir: Amanda Dehnert South Coast Rep, CA An Early History of Fire (PREMIERE) dir: Jo Bonney The New Group, NY (by David Rabe) Elemeno Pea (by Molly Smith Metzler) dir: Marc Masterson South Coast Rep, CA
2011 Ruined dir: Liesl Tommy Huntington Theater, MA Berkeley Rep, CA Extraordinary Chambers (PREMIERE) dir: Pam MacKinnon Geffen Playhouse, CA The Imaginary Invalid dir: Tracy Young Oregon Shakespeare Festival, OR A Midsummer Night’s Dream dir: Mark Rucker South Coast Rep, CA Pride and Prejudice dir: Kyle Donnelly South Coast Rep, CA Cabaret dir: Joel Ferrel Dallas Theater Center, TX Somewhere (by Matthew Lopez) dir: Giovanna Sardelli The Old Globe, CA Rafta, Rafta dir: Jonathan Silverstein The Old Globe, CA Margo Veil dir: Bart Delorenzo The Evidence Room/Odyssey Room, CA Heavier Than . . . dir: Abigail Deser Boston Court, CA
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2010 Lil’s 90th (by Darcy Picoult) dir: Jo Bonney Long Wharf Theatre, CT Bones (by Dael Orlandersmith) dir: Gordon Edelstein The Kirk Douglas Theater/CTG, CA Wrecks dir: Neil LaBute Geffen Playhouse, CA Love Loss and What I Wore dir: Jenny Sullivan Geffen Playhouse, CA Gee’s Bend dir: Hana Sharif Hartford Stage, CT In a Garden (by Howard Korder) dir: David Warren South Coast Rep, CA Death of a Salesman dir: Amanda Dehnert Dallas Theater Center, TX The Whipping Man (by Matthew Lopez)dir: Giovanna Sardelli The Old Globe, CA King Lear dir: Bart Delorenzo Antaeus Theater, CA Jewtopia dir: Bryan Fogel Greenway Theater, CA
2009 The Good Negro (PREMIERE) dir: Liesl Tommy The Public Theater, NY (by Tracy Scott Wilson) (NOM: Lucille Lortel; Best Lighting) Father Comes Home From the Wars dir: Jo Bonney The Public Theater, NY (by Suzan Lori Parks) Wildflower dir: Giovanna Sardelli Second Stage, NY The Servant of Two Masters dir: Tracy Young Oregon Shakespeare Festival, OR Medea dir: Lenka Udovicki UCLALive, CA Our Mother’s Brief Affair (PREMIERE) dir: Pam MacKinnon South Coast Rep, CA (by Richard Greenberg) Around the World in 80 Days dir: Bart Delorenzo Cleveland Playhouse, OH Man of La Mancha dir: Michael Michetti Reprise Theater, CA Crowns dir: Israel Hicks Ebony Repertory Theater, CA Pasadena Playhouse, CA The Night is a Child dir: Sheldon Epps Pasadena Playhouse, CA The Heavens are Hung in Black dir: Peter Amster Indiana Rep, IN A Christmas Story dir: John McCluggage St Louis Rep, MO
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2008 The Fever Chart (by Naomi Wallace) dir: Jo Bonney The Public Theater, NY The Good Negro (by Tracy Scott Wilson) dir: Liesl Tommy The Public Theater, NY Dallas Theater Center, TX Romeo and Juliet dir: David Muse Shakespeare Theatre, Washington D.C. Dead Man’s Cell Phone dir: Bart Delorenzo South Coast Rep, CA Of Equal Measure (by Tanya Barfield) dir: Leigh Silverman The Kirk Douglas Theater/CTG, CA The Importance of Being Earnest dir: Warner Shook South Coast Rep, CA What They Have (by Kate Robin) dir: Chris Fields South Coast Rep, CA Doubt dir: James Still Indiana Rep, IN Iron Kisses dir: David Bradley Indiana Rep, IN Equus dir: Michael Donald Edwards Asolo Theatre, FL
2007 Fat Pig (by Neil LaBute) dir: Jo Bonney Geffen Playhouse, CA Man of La Mancha dir: Amanda Dehnert Cleveland Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company System Wonderland dir: David Emmes South Coast Rep, CA Fences dir: Jonathan Wilson Hartford Stage, CT; Dallas Theater Center, TX (“Drammy” Award) Portland Center Stage, OR Long Day’s Journey Into Night dir: Jonathan Moscone San Jose Rep, CA (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award) Dark Play dir: Michael Michetti The Boston Court, CA Death of a Salesman dir: Tim Ocel Indiana Rep, IN Syracuse Stage, NY Keepers of the Night dir: Corey Madden Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Inside a Native Land dir: Chi Wang Yang REDCAT, Center for New Theater, CA
2006 Boston Marriage dir: David Mamet Geffen Playhouse, CA King Lear dir: Michael Donald Edwards Indiana Rep, IN Syracuse Stage, NY Amadeus dir: Michael Donald Edwards Asolo Theatre, FL Gem of the Ocean dir: Regge Life Pittsburgh Public Theater, PA Iphagenia dir: Timothy Near San Jose Rep, CA A Christmas Story dir: John McCluggage San Jose Rep, CA No Mercy dir: Larry Biederman 24th Street Theater, CA
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LAP CHI CHU lighting design 2005 The Grapes of Wrath dir: Michael Donald Edwards Indiana Rep, IN Syracuse Stage, NY She Stoops to Comedy dir: Bart DeLorenzo The Evidence Room, CA Enchanted April dir: John McCluggage San Jose Rep, CA (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award) Making Tracks dir: Jeff Steitzer San Jose Rep, CA Costumes by God (dance) Chamecki/Lerner Dance Theater Workshop, NY&Touring Crowns dir: Timothy Douglas Ctiy Theatre, PA A Christmas Story dir: John McCluggage Studio Arena Theatre, NY Cosi Fan Tutti dir: Robin Guarino UCLA Opera, CA Lorca: Child of the Moon dir: Ian Krouse UCLA Opera, CA
2004 Major Barbara dir: Timothy Near San Jose Rep, CA (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award) Wintertime dir: Timothy Near San Jose Rep, CA (NOM: Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award) Hard Times dir: Bart DeLorenzo The Evidence Room, CA Hidden Forms/Visible Content (dance)Chamecki/Lerner Touring As You like it dir: Eleanor Holdridge Shakespeare&Co., MA The Comedy of Errors dir: Cecil Mackinnon Shakespeare&Co., MA Albert Herring (opera) dir: Robin Guarino UCLA, CA Rebel Armies into Chad dir: Regge Life Juilliard Drama, NY The American Occupation dir: Trip Cullman Juilliard Drama, NY The Marriage of Figaro dir: Timothy Douglas Juilliard Drama, NY
2003 Living Out (by Lisa Loomer) dir: Bill Rauch Mark Taper Forum, CA Humpty Dumpty(by Eric Bogosian)dir: John McCluggage San Jose Rep, CA Cringe dir: Bart DeLorenzo & Peter Nieves The Evidence Room, CA Love's Labour's Lost dir: Eleanor Holdridge Juilliard Drama, NY Belle dir: Tazwell Thompson Juilliard Drama, NY The Last Days of Don Juan dir: Michael Sexton Juilliard Drama, NY Midsummer Night’s Dream dir: Alex Correia Juilliard Drama, NY Freshwater dir: Isabelle Milenski The Getty Center, CA Romola and Nijinski dir: David Levine Primary Stages, NY
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2002 The Drawer Boy dir: John McCluggage San Jose Rep, CA Pentecost dir: Bart DeLorenzo The Evidence Room, CA Visible Content (dance) Chamecki/Lerner Dance Theater Workshop, NY&Touring Sir Patient Fancy dir: Brendon Fox Juilliard Drama, NY Blue Window dir: Martha Banta Juilliard Drama, NY School of Night dir: David Warren Juilliard Drama, NY Die Fledermaus (opera) dir: Casey Stangl Pine Mountain Music Festival, MI Don Giovanni (opera) dir: Christine Seitz Pine Mountain Music Festival, MI
2001 Idiot's Delight dir: Peter Amster Oregon Shakespeare Festival, OR Hidden Forms (dance) Chamecki/Lerner American Dance Festival & Touring Valhalla (by Paul Rudnick) dir: Christopher Ashley Juilliard Drama, NY The Hothouse dir: Richard Feldman Juilliard Drama, NY Landscape of the Body dir: Will Pomerantz Juilliard Drama, NY As you Like it dir: Paul Mullins Juilliard Drama, NY
2000 Two Sisters and a Piano dir: Andrea Frye Oregon Shakespeare Festival, OR The Great White Hope dir: Molly Smith Arena Stage, Washington D.C. The Guardsman dir: Hegyi Arpad Jutucsa Cleveland Playhouse, OH 35th Anniversary (dance) Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre The Kitchen, NY 40 Up (dance) DanceSpace, NY La Cenerentola (opera) dir: Eve Shapiro Juilliard Opera, NY Richard II dir: Eve Shapiro Juilliard Drama, NY Someone Who'll Watch Over Medir: Richard Feldman Juilliard Drama, NY The Memorandum dir: Will Pomerantz Juilliard Drama, NY
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LAP CHI CHU lighting design 1999 Love's Fowl Susan Vitucci/Henry Krieger New York Theatre Workshop, NY Pirates of Penzance dir: Worth Gardner Virginia Opera, VA I Mutantes Seras (dance) Chamecki/Lerner Dance Theater Workshop, NY&Touring Middle of Nowhere (dance) Unterwegs Theater The Kitchen, NY Chapel Song (dance) Cherylyn Lavagnino DanceSpace, NY 40 Up (dance) DanceSpace, NY DanceNow (dance) Joyce Soho, Cooper Union, NY Brazil Northeast (dance) dir: Lygya Barreto Symphony Space, NY Prater Violet dir: Will Pomerantz The Salon, NY Love's Labour's Lost dir: Michael Sexton Juilliard Drama, NY The Pinter One Acts dir: Richard Feldman Juilliard Drama, NY The Importance of Being Earnest dir: Eve Shapiro Juilliard Drama, NY Macbeth dir: Will Pomerantz Juilliard Drama, NY
1998 Nora dir: Bartlett Sher Portland Stage, ME Tillers dir: Reggie Montgomery New York Theatre Workshop, NY Please Don't Leave Me (dance) Chamecki/Lerner Brazil; P.S. 122, NY, and Touring 40 Up (dance) DanceSpace, NY A Little Night Music dir: Worth Gardner Ordway Music Theater, MN The Libation Bearers dir: Raphael Sanchez Thread Waxing, NY Phoebe's Got Three Sisters dir: Marcus Stern ART Institute, MA/Moscow Arts Theater
1997 Shopping and Fucking dir: Max Stafford-Clark New York Theatre Workshop, NY 40 Up (dance) DanceSpace, NY DanceNow (dance) Joyce Soho, Cooper Union, NY
1996 Hydriotaphia dir: Michael Wilson Atlas Theater, NY
1995 Life Goes Boom dir: Larry Maslon Arena Stage, Washington D.C.
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Industrial Lighting Design: Client: Campus Martius Park - Detroit 300 Conservancy design by Peter Wexler, Lap-Chi Chu Performance and event lighting system for Downtown Detroit.
Midland Center for the Arts, MI design by Peter Wexler, Lap-Chi Chu, Mark Turpin Performance and house lighting system for Concert band shell.
Projection Design: Client: Costumes by God Chamecki/Lerner Dance Compnay Design system and content with video projections
Two Sisters and a Piano Oregon Shakespeare Festival Design system and content with slide film projectors
Buffalo Sabres - National Hockey League Playoffs Pregame show 2000 Design with large-format imagery (Pani & Pigi film projectors)
Cal Arts - "King Lear" Video Coordinator
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Computer Graphics: Client Dirty Blonde (Designer: Doug Stein) Scenic Graphics for original NY Theater Workshop And Broadway Theater Production
Production Arts/Fourth Phase Graphics for film media. Projects: Gloria Esteban, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, NHL Allstar game, NY Knicks, Tony Awards Show, Oscars Awards Show, SAP, EMC, IBM, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Houston Grand Opera
Howard Werner Design Graphics for film media. Projects: Vanity Fair, McDonalds Worldwide 2000, Liz Claiborne, Lights of Liberty, Ecolab, Global Shop, Production Resource Group, Carnival Cruise Lines,
Peter Wexler Design Photo-Realistic Renderings for Client Proposals Projects: NextStage, National Underground Railroad. Photo-Realistic Renderings and compositingfor soon to be published book series “Due Cani”
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Teaching (Fall 2001 to Present): Lighting Design Faculty California Institute of the Arts Guest Lighting Design Faculty (2014) Hangyang University: Seoul, South Korea
Awards: Ovation Nomination for Best Lighting Design: Actually 2017 Ovation Nomination for Best Lighting Design: Archduke 2017 Ovation Nomination for Best Lighting Design: Guards at the Taj 2015 Henry Award for Outstanding Lighting Nomination: The 12 2015 Denver Center, CO Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Lighting Nomination: Romeo & Juliet 2013: Cal Shakes, CA Ovation Nomination for Best Lighting Design: The Royale 2013 Outstanding Design Elliot Norton Award Nomination: A Raisin in the Sun 2013: Huntington Theater, MA Ovation Award for Best Lighting Design: The Convert 2012 LA Drama Critics Circle/Angstrom Career Achievement in Lighting Award 2012 Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Lighting Nomination: Ruined 2011: Berkeley Rep, CA IRNE Award for Best Lighting Nomination: Ruined 2011: Huntington Theater, MA LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Lighting Nomination: 2009: South Coast Repertory, CA Our Mother’s Brief Affair Lucille Lortel Award for Best Lighting Nomination: The Good Negro 2009: The Public Theater, NY “Drammy” Award for Best Lighting: Fences 2007: Portland Center Stage, OR Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Lighting: Long Day’s Journey Into Night 2007: San Jose Rep, CA Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Lighting: Enchanted April 2005: San Jose Rep, CA Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Lighting: Major Barbara 2004: San Jose Rep, CA Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Lighting Nomination: Wintertime 2004: San Jose Rep, CA New York Theater Workshop: Usual Suspect Member J. S. Seidman Award for Design 1998: New York University, NY. ALH Fellowship for Design 1994-95: Arena Stage, D.C.
Education: MFA: New York University, NY. BS: Northwestern University, IL.
Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829
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