Lap Chi Chu is a New York City– and Los Angeles–based Chinese American lighting designer known for his Off-Broadway works.
Lap Chi Chu | |
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Education | Northwestern University (BS) New York University (MFA) |
Occupation(s) | Lighting Designer Professor |
Years active | 1998-present |
Spouse | |
Website | lapchichu |
Early life and education edit
Chu got his B.S. from Northwestern University and M.F.A from New York University.[1]
Career edit
Teaching edit
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 edit
Chu married Rebecca Wisocky in Boston on October 10, 2015.[3][4]
Awards and nominations edit
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 edit
Off Broadway edit
Year | Show | Theater |
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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 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Lap Chi Chu". UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
- ^ "Lap Chi Chu Faculty Page"
- ^ Emily Strohm, "Inside Devious Maids Star Rebecca Wisocky's Wedding at a Turn-of-the-Century Mansion", People Magazine, October 13th, 2015.
- ^ Rebecca Wisocky, [1], Twitter, February 4th, 2015.
- ^ "Lap Chi Chu - Lortel Archives". www.lortel.org. Archived from the original on 2016-02-29.
- ^ "Lap Chi Chu Theatre Credits, News, Bio and Photos".