Lap Chi Chu

Lap Chi Chu
EducationNorthwestern University (BS)
New York University (MFA)
Occupation(s)Lighting Designer
Professor
Years active1998-present
Spouse
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(m. 2015)​
Websitelapchichu.com

Lap Chi Chu is a Chinese American lighting designer known for his Broadway and Off-Broadway works.

Early life and education

Chu got his B.S. from Northwestern University and M.F.A from New York University.[1]

Career

Teaching

Chu taught at California Institute of the Arts from 2001 to 2020. He is currently a professor and the Head of Lighting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.[2] He also guest taught at Hangyang University in Seoul, South Korea.[1]

Personal life

Chu married Rebecca Wisocky in Boston on October 10, 2015.[3][4]

Awards and nominations

Chu has received a Tony Award nomination for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for the 2023 Broadway revival of "Camelot." Chu has also received a Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical in 2024 for Suffs. Chu's lighting for Mlima’s Tale earned him the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Lighting in 2019 and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination in 2018. Also in 2018, he received an Obie 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.

Work

Off Broadway

Source:[5][6]

Year Show Theater
1998 Love's Fowl New York Theatre Workshop
Shopping and Fucking
2009 Wildflower McGinn-Cazale Theatre
The Good Negro Public Theater LuEsther Hall
2012 Emotional Creature Pershing Square Signature Center The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
An Early History of Fire Acorn Theatre
2013 Small Engine Repair Lucille Lortel Theater
stop. reset. Pershing Square Signature Center The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
2014 Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Public Theater Anspacher Theater
Appropriate Pershing Square Signature Center
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Public Theater Martinson Hall
2015 Lost Girls Lucille Lortel Theater
Mr. Wolf South Coast Repertory
2016 The Wolves The Duke on 42nd Street
The Body of an American Cherry Lane Theatre
2017 Describe the Night Linda Gross Theater
Oedipus El Ray Public Theater Susan Stein Shiva Theater
God Looked Away Pasadena Community Playhouse
At the Old Place Old Globe Theater
2018 Our Very Own Carlin McCullough Geffen Playhouse
Mlima's Tale Public Theater Martinson Hall
An Ordinary Muslim New York Theatre Workshop
Eve's Song Public Theater LuEsther Hall at Joseph Papp
Mother of the Maid Public Theater Anspacher Theater
2019 the way she spoke Minetta Lane Theatre
2020 Darling Grenadine Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
2023 The Coast Starlight Lincoln Center Theater

Broadway

Source:[7][8]

Year Show Theater Notes
2023 Camelot Lincoln Center Theater Tony Nomination for Best Lighting Design of a Musical 2023
2024 Uncle Vanya Lincoln Center Theater
Suffs Music Box Theatre Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical 2024

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Lap Chi Chu". UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  2. ^ "Lap Chi Chu Faculty Page"
  3. ^ Emily Strohm, "Inside Devious Maids Star Rebecca Wisocky's Wedding at a Turn-of-the-Century Mansion", People Magazine, October 13th, 2015.
  4. ^ Rebecca Wisocky, [1], Twitter, February 4th, 2015.
  5. ^ "Lap Chi Chu - Lortel Archives". www.lortel.org. Archived from the original on 2016-02-29.
  6. ^ "Lap Chi Chu Theatre Credits, News, Bio and Photos".
  7. ^ "Camelot - Who's Who".
  8. ^ "Suffs The Musical".