Awards & Winners

Donald Holder

Donald Holder is an American lighting designer in theatre, opera, and dance based in New York. He has been nominated for nine 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. His lighting design for Ragtime has been nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical. Additional Broadway credits include: Big Fish, Annie, Golden Boy, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Arcadia, The Motherf**cker With The Hat, Promises, Promises, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Radio Golf, The Little Dog Laughed, Movin' Out, The Times They Are a-Changin', A Streetcar Named Desire, Holiday,Cyrano de Bergerac, and Prelude to a Kiss. Holder studied forestry at the University of Maine, where he graduated from in 1980. He also worked for the Portland Stage Company in Maine. 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. He is currently the theatrical lighting designer for the NBC-Universal Television Series: 'Smash.'

Awards by Donald Holder

Check all the awards nominated and won by Donald Holder.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical The Bridges of Madison County

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Golden Boy
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play Golden Boy

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical Ragtime

2008


Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Honored for : South Pacific

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical South Pacific
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design South Pacific

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play Gem of the Ocean
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play A Streetcar Named Desire
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Gem of the Ocean
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Gem of the Ocean

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design The Violet Hour

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Movin' Out
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical Movin' Out

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Thoroughly Modern Millie

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design The Green Bird
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Designer The Lion King

1998


Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design
Honored for : The Lion King
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical
Honored for : The Lion King
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design
Honored for : The Lion King

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design The Lion King
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design The Lion King
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical The Lion King

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Juan Darien
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical Juan Darien

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Caucasian Chalk Circle
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production Stand-Up Tragedy