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Donald Holder is an American lighting designer in theatre, opera and dance based in New York. He was born in 1962. He has been nominated for fourteen 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 Paradise Square has been nominated for a 2022 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical. Additional Broadway credits include: Tootsie, Anastasia, Kiss Me Kate, Fiddler on the Roof, The Bridges of Madison County, She Loves Me, The Cherry Orchard, The King and I, Big Fish, Annie (2012 Broadway revival), Golden Boy, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Arcadia, The Motherfucker 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. Off-Broadway credits include Jeffrey and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. He was the theatrical lighting designer for seasons one and two of the NBC-Universal television series Smash.

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 to 2010 in the School of Theater at the California Institute of the Arts, and is currently Head of Lighting Design at the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Awards and nominations

References

1. ^ "Donald Holder". IBDB: Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
2. Sherman, Rachel (9 May 2022). "Who's Nominated?". NY Times. NY Times. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
3. Three with Maine ties get Tony nod Portland Press Herald, May 5, 2010
4. "Donald Holder". California Institute of the Arts. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2010.

External links

• Donald Holder at the Internet Broadway Database
• Livedesign magazine article on Holder
• Authorsden.com article

• American lighting designers
• Tony Award winners
• Drama Desk Award winners
• University of Maine alumni
• David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni
• Living people