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.
Lap Chi Chu, Suffs
Lap Chi Chu, Camelot
Lap Chi ChuSustained Excellence of Lighting Design
Lap Chi Chu, Mlima's Tale
Lap Chi Chu, The Good Negro
Lap Chi Chu has been nominated for several awards for his lighting design work. These include: Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards for "Suffs," Best Lighting Design of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "Camelot," a Design Award at the Obie Awards for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design, Outstanding Lighting Design at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Mlima's Tale," and Outstanding Lighting Design at The Lortels for "The Good Negro."
Lap Chi Chu has won the Design Award (Obie Awards) for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design.
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