Lap Chi Chu

Lap Chi Chu is a New York City- and Los Angeles-based Chinese American lighting designer known for his Off-Broadway works.

Career

Off Broadway

Source:[1][2]

Year Show Theater
2018 Our Very Own Carlin McCullough Geffen Playhouse
Mlima's Tale Public Theater Martinson Hall
An Ordinary Muslim New York Theatre Workshop
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
2016 The Wolves The Duke on 42nd Street
The Body of an American Cherry Lane Theatre
2015 Lost Girls Lucille Lortel Theater
Mr. Wolf South Coast Repertory
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
2013 Small Engine Repair Lucille Lortel Theater
stop. reset. Pershing Square Signature Center The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
2012 Emotional Creature Pershing Square Signature Center The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
An Early History of Fire Acorn Theatre
2009 Wildflower McGinn-Cazale Theatre
The Good Negro Public Theater LuEsther Hall
1998 Love's Fowl New York Theatre Workshop
Shopping and Fucking

Teaching

Chu taught at California Institute of the Arts from 2001–2020. He is currently a professor and the Head of Lighting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.[3]

Personal life

Chu married Rebecca Wisocky in Boston on October 10, 2015.[4][5]

Awards and nominations

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.

See also

References
  1. "Lap Chi Chu - Lortel Archives". www.lortel.org. Archived from the original on 2016-02-29.
  2. "Lap Chi Chu Theatre Credits, News, Bio and Photos".
  3. "Lap Chi Chu Faculty Page"
  4. Emily Strohm, "Inside Devious Maids Star Rebecca Wisocky's Wedding at a Turn-of-the-Century Mansion", People Magazine, October 13th, 2015.
  5. Rebecca Wisocky, , Twitter, February 4th, 2015.
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