Christopher Akerlind - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	01-May-1962
Place of Birth	Hartford (United States of America, Connecticut, Hartford County, Area code 959, Area code 860, Area codes 860 and 959)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Chris Akerlind
Profession	Lighting Designer
Christopher Akerlind is an American lighting designer for theatre, opera, and dance. He won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for Light in the Piazza and an Obie Award for sustained excellence for his work Off-Broadway. He attended Boston University and the Yale School of Drama, training with Jennifer Tipton. He was Head of Lighting Design and Director of the Design & Production Programs at the CalArts School of Theater. He has designed many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, working on both musicals and straight plays. He is noted for his work for director Lloyd Richards on the first productions of the plays of August Wilson, including The Piano Lesson and Seven Guitars. He was the Resident Lighting Designer for twelve years at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Akerland was a Visiting Associate Professor and Director of Production at the University of Southern California School of the Theatre from 2007 to 2008, has guest taught at New York University, the University of Connecticut, Yale, and for the Broadway Lighting Master Classes.

Awards by Christopher Akerlind

Check all the awards nominated and won by Christopher Akerlind.

2014

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Honored for : Rocky

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	Rocky
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical	Rocky

2012

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical	Porgy and Bess

2007

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical	110 in the Shade

2006

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play	Awake and Sing!
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	Awake and Sing!

2005

Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Honored for : The Light in the Piazza

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Honored for : The Light in the Piazza

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Honored for : The Light in the Piazza

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	Belle Epoque
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical	The Light in the Piazza
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	The Light in the Piazza
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	The Light in the Piazza

2000

Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design

1996

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical	Seven Guitars

1994

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	The Lights

1992

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design	Mad Forest

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