Production Staff
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. ... read more
Broadway/Tours: Elf, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, A Life in the Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family, Memphis, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, In the Heights, Wicked, 9 to 5, South Pacific, Peepshow in Vegas. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Margin Call, Howl, Sex and the City 1 & 2, Jonah Hex, Main Street, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira & Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding ... read more
Roundabout and Broadway debut. Off- Broadway: The Antipodes, Everybody, The Wolves, A Life (Lortel Award, Drama Desk nomination), Marjorie Prime, The Nether (Lortel nomination), The Village Bike, Buzzer, Small Mouth Sounds. Multiple projects with The Debate Society & The Mad Ones. Regional: Yale Rep, Bard SummerScape, Cincinnati Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, South Coast Rep. Opera: Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Atlanta Opera, Juilliard. Obie for Sustained Excellence in Design. ... read more
Awards and Nominations
2017 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Ensemble: Mia Barron won.
2017 Obie Awards
Ensemble: The Cast of The Wolves won.
2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards
John Gassner Award: Sarah DeLappe was nominated but did not win.
2017 The Lortels
Outstanding Director: Lila Neugebauer was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Play: Sarah DeLappe was nominated but did not win.
2017 The Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sarah DeLappe was nominated but did not win.