Donald Holder

Donald Holder

Donald Holder is an American lighting designer in theatre, opera, and dance based in New York. He has been nominated for eight 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 Ragtime has been nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical.[2] Additional Broadway credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Radio Golf, Movin' Out, The Times They Are a-Changin', A Streetcar Named Desire, Holiday,Cyrano de Bergerac, Prelude to a Kiss, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.[1]

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 2006-2010 in the School of Theater at the California Institute of the Arts.[4]

Awards and nominations

  • Juan Darien (1997) - Tony and Drama Desk Award Nominee, Best Lighting Design
  • The Lion King (1998) - Tony and Drama Desk Award Winner, Best Lighting Design
  • Movin' Out (2003) - Tony and Drama Desk Award Nominee, Best Lighting Design
  • The Violet Hour (2004) - Drama Desk Award Nominee, Outstanding Lighting Design
  • Gem of the Ocean (2005) -Tony and Drama Desk Award Nominee, Best Lighting Design
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (2005) - Tony Award Nominee, Best Lighting Design of a Play
  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2008) - Tony Award Nominee, Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play
  • South Pacific (2008) - Tony Award Winner, Best Lighting Design of a Musical
  • Ragtime (2010) - Tony Award Nominee, Best Lighting Design of a Musical

References

  1. ^ a b "Donald Holder". IBDB: Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=25700. Retrieved 13 June 2010. 
  2. ^ "Who's Nominated?". Tony Awards. IBM Corp.. http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/index.html. Retrieved 13 June 2010. 
  3. ^ Three with Maine ties get Tony nod Portland Press Herald, May 5, 2010
  4. ^ "Donald Holder". California Institute of the Arts. California Institute of the Arts. http://calarts.edu/faculty_bios/theater/faculty/donaldholder/donaldholder. Retrieved 13 June 2010. [dead link]

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