Brian MacDevitt is a prolific, award-winning lighting designer for theatrical productions. He has worked extensively on Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as touring, regional theatre, and Industrial productions. Current Broadway credits include: and Accent On Youth, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Blythe Spirit, You’re Welcome America. A Long Island, New York, native, Brian graduated from SUNY Purchase with a degree in lighting design from the department of Design/Technology of the Division of Theatre Arts & Film. After graduation, Brian spent a decade honing his craft with Off Broadway and other productions, and also developed a reputation as a teacher of design. He began teaching at Purchase as a visiting professor in 1986. He continued to balance his teaching career while breaking into Broadway in 1994 with What's Wrong With This Picture. Brian started to achieve notice with the Terrence McNally play Love! Valour! Compassion!, a transfer from Manhattan Theatre Club in 1995. His success continued through the 1990s, and eventually culminated with a Tony Award in 2002 for the revival of Into the Woods. Brian has been nominated for a total of eight Tony's, winning again for Best Lighting Design for a Play in 2005 for The Pillowman and in 2007 for The Coast of Utopia (sharing the award with Kenneth Posner and Natasha Katz). Recent credits on Broadway also include: American Buffalo, Speed-The-Plow, 13, and A Catered Affair. Brian continues to teach lighting design at such schools as SUNY Purchase and New York University (NYU).

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• Visual Aids: paintings and photography for inspiration and communication in the theater

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