May 1, 2009
| Richard Pilbrow has received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical for his work on A Tale of Two Cities. |
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A pioneer of modern stage lighting, his lighting design work has been
seen in London, New York, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Moscow.
His Broadway credits include A Tale of Two Cities - The Musical, Our Town (starring Paul Newman), the Hal Prince hit revival of Show Boat, Zorba, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Rothchilds. He also recently designed lights for The Sleeping Beauty for the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House. |
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Richard is an active author and publisher including Stage Lighting, with a forward by Sir Olivier, and Stage Lighting Design: The Art, the Craft, the Life, with forward by Hal Prince, (published 1997 and reprinted 2008) which became and continues to be the standard for teaching lighting in the UK and US. He has been recognized with multiple Tony Award nominations, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award-Lighting, and the Dora Award - Outstanding Lighting.
The 2008-2009 54th Annual Drama Desk Award Ceremony will take place May 17, 2009 at the LaGuardia Concert Hall @ Lincoln Center (F.H.LaGuardia H.S. of Music & Art and Performing Arts) and will be hosted by Harvey Fierstein.
The Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition between Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories.n
