Lap Chi Chu
Lap Chi Chu is a lighting designer based in New York and Los Angeles.
2023 Tony Award Nomination for Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Camelot, new book by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher. Lap is the recipient of the 2018 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, Lucille Lortel Award for Best Lighting, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design, an Ovation award, multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, a “Drammy” for best lighting. Formerly Head of Lighting at CalArts, he is now Professor and Head of Lighting design at the University of California Los Angeles.