# Lap Chi Chu

Lap Chi Chu is a Chinese American lighting designer known for his Broadway and Off-Broadway works.

## Early life and education

Chu got his B.S. from Northwestern University and M.F.A from New York University.

## Career
### Teaching

Chu taught at California Institute of the Arts from 2001 to 2020. He is currently a professor and the Head of Lighting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He also guest taught at Hangyang University in Seoul, South Korea.

## Personal life

Chu married Rebecca Wisocky in Boston on October 10, 2015.

## Awards and nominations

Chu has received a Tony Award nomination for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for the 2023 Broadway revival of "Camelot." Chu has also received a Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical in 2024 for Suffs. 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.

## Work
### Off Broadway

Source:
| Year | Show | Theater |
| 1998 | Love's Fowl | New York Theatre Workshop |
| 1998 | Shopping and Fucking | New York Theatre Workshop |
| 2009 | Wildflower | McGinn-Cazale Theatre |
| 2009 | The Good Negro | Public Theater LuEsther Hall |
| 2012 | Emotional Creature | Pershing Square Signature Center The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre |
| 2012 | An Early History of Fire | Acorn Theatre |
| 2013 | Small Engine Repair | Lucille Lortel Theater |
| 2013 | stop. reset. | Pershing Square Signature Center The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre |
| 2014 | Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) | Public Theater Anspacher Theater |
| 2014 | Appropriate | Pershing Square Signature Center |
| 2014 | Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) | Public Theater Martinson Hall |
| 2015 | Lost Girls | Lucille Lortel Theater |
| 2015 | Mr. Wolf | South Coast Repertory |
| 2016 | The Wolves | The Duke on 42nd Street |
| 2016 | The Body of an American | Cherry Lane Theatre |
| 2017 | Describe the Night | Linda Gross Theater |
| 2017 | Oedipus El Ray | Public Theater Susan Stein Shiva Theater |
| 2017 | God Looked Away | Pasadena Community Playhouse |
| 2017 | At the Old Place | Old Globe Theater |
| 2018 | Our Very Own Carlin McCullough | Geffen Playhouse |
| 2018 | Mlima's Tale | Public Theater Martinson Hall |
| 2018 | An Ordinary Muslim | New York Theatre Workshop |
| 2018 | Eve's Song | Public Theater LuEsther Hall at Joseph Papp |
| 2018 | Mother of the Maid | Public Theater Anspacher Theater |
| 2019 | the way she spoke | Minetta Lane Theatre |
| 2020 | Darling Grenadine | Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre |
| 2023 | The Coast Starlight | Lincoln Center Theater |

### Broadway

Source:
| Year | Show | Theater | Notes |
| 2023 | Camelot | Lincoln Center Theater | Tony Nomination for Best Lighting Design of a Musical 2023 |
| 2024 | Uncle Vanya | Lincoln Center Theater | |
| 2024 | Suffs | Music Box Theatre | Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical 2024 |