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