Christopher Akerlind
American lighting designer
Biography
Christopher Akerlind (born May 1, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut)
is an American lighting designer for theatre, opera, and dance. He won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for Indecent. He also won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for Light in the Piazza and an Obie Award for sustained excellence for his work Off-Broadway.
He attended Boston University College of Fine Arts (1985) and the Yale School of Drama, training with Jennifer Tipton.
He was Head of Lighting Design and Director of the Design & Production Programs at the CalArts School of Theater.
He has designed many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, working on both musicals and straight plays. He is noted for his work for director Lloyd Richards on the first productions of the plays of August Wilson, including The Piano Lesson (1990) and Seven Guitars (1996).
He was the Resident Lighting Designer for twelve years at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
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Awards & honours (2)
- Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design
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