Neil Austin Lighting Design
Neil Austin Lighting Design
Neil Austin is a lighting designer working internationally on plays, musicals, opera and dance.
Winner
of the
2010 Tony Award
for
Best Lighting Design of a Play
for
Red at the Golden Theatre, New York
Winner
of the
2010 Drama Desk Award
for
Outstanding Lighting Design
for
Red at the Golden Theatre, New York
He is nominated in the 2010 Knight of Illumination Awards
for
Best Lighting Design of a play
for
Judgment Day at the Almeida Theatre
You can currently see his work on:
The Prince of Homburg at the Donmar Warehouse
Welcome to Thebes at the National Theatre
The Prisoner of Second Avenue at the Vaudeville in London’s West End
Other recent shows include:
Red at the Golden Theatre, Broadway
The White Guard at the National Theatre
London Assurance at the National Theatre
Women Beware Women at the National Theatre
As One for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House
A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse
Parade at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles
Judgment Day at the Almeida Theatre
Piaf at the Teatro Alcala, Madrid & Teatro Liceo, Buenos Aires
Awards:
Tony Award 2010
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Red, Golden Theatre, Broadway
Drama Desk Award 2010
Outstanding Lighting Design
Red, Golden Theatre, Broadway
Backstage Garland Award 2010
Lighting Design
Parade, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles
Knight of Illumination Award 2008
Best Lighting Design: Musical Theatre
Parade at the Donmar Warehouse
He was named as one of the 25 Pacesetters on the London Arts Scene by Variety in 2007
He is a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Nominations:
Tony Awards
Best Lighting Design of a Play- 2010 - Hamlet, Broadway
Best Lighting Design of a Play - 2010 - Red, Broadway
Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Lighting Design - 2010 - Hamlet, Broadway
Outstanding Lighting Design - 2010 - Red, Broadway
Laurence Olivier Awards
Best Lighting Design - 2009 - Piaf
Best Lighting Design - 2009 - No Man’s Land
Best Lighting Design - 2007 - Therese Raquin
Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Lighting Design - 2007 - Frost Nixon, Broadway
Knight of Illumination Awards
Best Lighting Design: Play - 2010 - Judgment Day
Best Lighting Design: Play - 2009 - Twelfth Night
Best Lighting Design: Musical - 2009 - Piaf
Best Lighting Design: Musical - 2008 - Parade
Whatsonstage.com Awards
Best Lighting Designer - 2010 - Madame de Sade & Life is a Dream
Best Lighting Designer - 2009 - Oedipus, Piaf & No Mans Land
Irish Times Theatre Awards
Best Designer: Lighting - 2009 - No Mans Land
