Richard Pilbrow, chairman of TPC, was awarded Lighting Designer of the Year during the LDI 2005 tradeshow and conference annual awards ceremony on November 12th, 2005.

Most recently, Richard was the lighting designer for Goodspeed Musical's production of The Boyfriend directed by Oscar and Emmy Award-winner Julie Andrews. The production opened this summer at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT and is currently on a national tour. (Dawn Chiang, a TPC Associate was the co-lighting designer.) Richard has also lighting designed Goodspeed's Where's Charley? and Very Good Eddie.

Richard pioneered the modern practice of stage lighting in Britain and his work has been seen in London, New York, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Moscow. He was the first British lighting designer to design the lighting for a Broadway musical (Zorba).

He was lighting designer of the Hal Prince hit revival of Show Boat on Broadway (Drama Desk Award, Outer Circle Critics Award-lighting), in Toronto (Dora Award - Outstanding Lighting), and on tour throughout the US (NAACP Award for Lighting).

Other Broadway productions include Our Town (Revival) starring Paul Newman (Westport Country Playhouse, Broadway and PBS-TV); the Cy Coleman musical The Life, (1997 Tony Award nomination); the Roundabout Theatre production of Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; The Rothchilds, and at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Four Baboons Adoring The Sun (1993 Tony Award nomination).

In 1982, Richard received an award from the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) for "his many years contribution to the art of lighting, as designer, entrepreneur, and consultant in both England and America," and in 1999 the USITT presented him with an Outstanding Life Time Achievement Award. Richard was elected a Fellow of the USITT in 2001. And in 2000, the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) awarded him their annual Technician of the Year award for his contributions to theatre technology.