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Donald Holder has worked extensively in Theatre, Opera, Dance, Architectural, Film and Television lighting in the US and abroad for over 30 years. He has designed 62 Broadway productions and has been nominated for fourteen Tony awards, winning the Tony for Best Lighting Design for ‘The Lion King’ in 1998, and for the 2008 revival of ‘South Pacific’. Recent Broadway productions include: ‘McNeal’, ‘Call Me Izzy’, ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’, ’Paradise Square’, ‘Tootsie’, ‘Kiss Me Kate’, ‘Anastasia’, ‘Oslo’, ’She Loves Me’, ‘Fiddler On The Roof’, ‘The King and I’, ‘On The Twentieth Century’, ‘The Bridges of Madison County’, ‘Spiderman-Turn Off The Dark’, ‘Bullets Over Broadway’, and many others.
Projects at the NY Metropolitan Opera include ’Champion’, ‘Rigoletto’, ‘Porgy and Bess’, ‘Samson et Delilah’, ‘Otello’, ‘The Magic Flute’ and the premiere of ‘Two Boys’. Upcoming: ‘La Sonnambula’, ‘The Wedding Banquet’, ‘Macbeth’. His television/film work includes the theatrical lighting for two seasons of ‘Smash’ (NBC- Dreamworks), ‘Spirited’ (Apple Studios), ‘Oceans 8’ (Warner Brothers Pictures) ‘Gossip Girls’ (HBO Max), and ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ (Amazon Studios). Mr. Holder is currently a professor of professional practice and head of Lighting Design for the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers- New Brunswick. He will begin the same role for the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale in Fall 2025.
