# Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play for outstanding Lighting design of a play. The award was first presented in 2005 after the category of Best Lighting Design was divided into Lighting Design in a Play and Lighting Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Production | Nominees |
| 2005 (59th) |
| 2005 (59th) | The Pillowman | Brian MacDevitt |
| 2005 (59th) | Doubt | Pat Collins |
| 2005 (59th) | Gem of the Ocean | Donald Holder |
| 2005 (59th) | A Streetcar Named Desire | Donald Holder |
| 2006 (60th) |
| 2006 (60th) | The History Boys | Mark Henderson |
| 2006 (60th) | Awake and Sing! | Christopher Akerlind |
| 2006 (60th) | Faith Healer | Mark Henderson |
| 2006 (60th) | Three Days of Rain | Paul Gallo |
| 2007 (61st) |
| 2007 (61st) | The Coast of Utopia | Natasha Katz, Brian MacDevitt and Kenneth Posner |
| 2007 (61st) | Coram Boy | Paule Constable |
| 2007 (61st) | Inherit the Wind | Brian MacDevitt |
| 2007 (61st) | Journey's End | Jason Taylor |
| 2008 (62nd) |
| 2008 (62nd) | The 39 Steps | Kevin Adams |
| 2008 (62nd) | August: Osage County | Ann G. Wrightson |
| 2008 (62nd) | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Donald Holder |
| 2008 (62nd) | Macbeth | Howard Harrison |
| 2009 (63rd) |
| 2009 (63rd) | Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Brian MacDevitt |
| 2009 (63rd) | Equus | David Hersey |
| 2009 (63rd) | Mary Stuart | Hugh Vanstone |
| 2009 (63rd) | 33 Variations | David Lander |

### 2010s

| Year | Production | Nominees |
| 2010 (64th) |
| 2010 (64th) | Red | Neil Austin |
| 2010 (64th) | ENRON | Mark Henderson |
| 2010 (64th) | Fences | Brian MacDevitt |
| 2010 (64th) | Hamlet | Neil Austin |
| 2011 (65th) |
| 2011 (65th) | War Horse | Paule Constable |
| 2011 (65th) | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | David Lander |
| 2011 (65th) | Jerusalem | Mimi Jordan Sherin |
| 2011 (65th) | The Merchant of Venice | Kenneth Posner |
| 2012 (66th) |
| 2012 (66th) | Peter and the Starcatcher | Jeff Croiter |
| 2012 (66th) | Death of a Salesman | Brian MacDevitt |
| 2012 (66th) | Other Desert Cities | Kenneth Posner |
| 2012 (66th) | The Road to Mecca | Peter Kaczorowski |
| 2013 (67th) |
| 2013 (67th) | Lucky Guy | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher |
| 2013 (67th) | Golden Boy | Donald Holder |
| 2013 (67th) | The Nance | Japhy Weideman |
| 2013 (67th) | The Testament of Mary | Jennifer Tipton |
| 2014 (68th) |
| 2014 (68th) | The Glass Menagerie | Natasha Katz |
| 2014 (68th) | The Cripple of Inishmaan | Paule Constable |
| 2014 (68th) | Machinal | Jane Cox |
| 2014 (68th) | Of Mice and Men | Japhy Weideman |
| 2015 (69th) |
| 2015 (69th) | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Paule Constable |
| 2015 (69th) | Airline Highway | Japhy Weideman |
| 2015 (69th) | Skylight | Natasha Katz |
| 2015 (69th) | Wolf Hall Parts One & Two | Paule Constable and David Plater |
| 2016 (70th) |
| 2016 (70th) | Long Day's Journey into Night | Natasha Katz |
| 2016 (70th) | The Crucible | Jan Versweyveld |
| 2016 (70th) | The Humans | Justin Townsend |
| 2016 (70th) | A View from the Bridge | Jan Versweyveld |
| 2017 (71st) |
| 2017 (71st) | Indecent | Christopher Akerlind |
| 2017 (71st) | A Doll's House, Part 2 | Jennifer Tipton |
| 2017 (71st) | Jitney | Jane Cox |
| 2017 (71st) | Oslo | Donald Holder |
| 2018 (72nd) |
| 2018 (72nd) | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | Neil Austin |
| 2018 (72nd) | Angels in America | Paule Constable |
| 2018 (72nd) | Farinelli and the King | Paul Russell |
| 2018 (72nd) | The Iceman Cometh | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher |
| 2018 (72nd) | Junk | Ben Stanton |
| 2019 (73rd) |
| 2019 (73rd) | Ink | Neil Austin |
| 2019 (73rd) | The Ferryman | Peter Mumford |
| 2019 (73rd) | Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus | Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer |
| 2019 (73rd) | Network | Jan Versweyveld and Tal Yarden |
| 2019 (73rd) | To Kill a Mockingbird | Jennifer Tipton |

### 2020s

| Year | Production | Nominees |
| 2020 (74th) |
| 2020 (74th) | A Christmas Carol | Hugh Vanstone |
| 2020 (74th) | The Inheritance | Jon Clark |
| 2020 (74th) | Slave Play | Jiyoun Chang |
| 2020 (74th) | A Soldier's Play | Allen Lee Hughes |
| 2020 (74th) | The Sound Inside | Heather Gilbert |
| 2022 (75th) |
| 2022 (75th) | The Lehman Trilogy | Jon Clark |
| 2022 (75th) | for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf | Jiyoun Chang |
| 2022 (75th) | Hangmen | Joshua Carr |
| 2022 (75th) | Macbeth | Jane Cox |
| 2022 (75th) | The Skin of Our Teeth | Yi Zhao |
| 2023 (76th) |
| 2023 (76th) | Life of Pi | Tim Lutkin |
| 2023 (76th) | A Christmas Carol | Ben Stanton |
| 2023 (76th) | Death of a Salesman | Jen Schriever |
| 2023 (76th) | A Doll's House | Jon Clark |
| 2023 (76th) | Fat Ham | Bradley King |
| 2023 (76th) | Leopoldstadt | Neil Austin |
| 2023 (76th) | Prima Facie | Natasha Chivers |
| 2024 (77th) |
| 2024 (77th) | Appropriate | Jane Cox |
| 2024 (77th) | An Enemy of the People | Isabella Byrd |
| 2024 (77th) | Grey House | Natasha Katz |
| 2024 (77th) | Prayer for the French Republic | Amith Chandrashaker |
| 2024 (77th) | Stereophonic | Jiyoun Chang |