Awards & Winners

Christopher Akerlind

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

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