Older white man with greying hair an a goatee. He wears a blazer over a white shirt and is smiling.

Brian MacDevitt
lighting designer

The 70 plus shows for which Brian MacDevitt has designed lighting on Broadway include Death of a Salesman, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Mike Nichols, The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Fences, A Behanding in Spokane, Race, The Pillowman, Urinetown, and Into the Woods. In addition to 5 TONY awards, he has also won an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence and a Bessie Award amongst others. He has designed lighting for dance companies including The Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Tere O’Connor Dance, Merce Cunningham, Lar Lubovitch, Nancy Bannon, and many others. His designs for the Metropolitan Opera include The Enchanted Island and Doctor Atomic. Brian recently directed Between Riverside and Crazy for Studio Theater in DC, Proof for Theater Three in NY and Spring Awakening at The Clarice Smith Center in Maryland. Mr. MacDevitt is on the Faculty of University of Maryland and a member of the Naked Angels Theater Company.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Brian designed the lighting for Tere O’Connor’s Person Project.