Tony Awards - Lighting Design
The Tony Awards, presented by the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, have two categories for Lighitng Design, for a Musical and a Play (except between 1970-2004, when there was one category, listed below).
Lighting Design of a Musical
- 2025: Sunset Blvd. (Jack Knowles)
- 2024: The Outsiders (Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim)
- 2023: Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Natasha Katz)
- 2022: MJ (Natasha Katz)
- 2020: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Justin Townsend)
- 2019: Hadestown (Bradley King)
- 2018: The Band's Visit (Tyler Micoleau)
- 2017: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Bradley King)
- 2016: Hamilton (Howell Binkley)
- 2015: An American in Paris (Natasha Katz)
- 2014: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Kevin Adams)
- 2013: Matilda The Musical (Hugh Vanstone)
- 2012: Once (Natasha Katz)
- 2011: The Book of Mormon (Brian MacDevitt)
- 2010: American Idiot (Kevin Adams)
- 2009: Billy Elliot The Musical (Rick Fisher)
- 2008: Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific (Donald Holder)
- 2007: Spring Awakening (Kevin Adams)
- 2006: Jersey Boys (Howell Binkley)
- 2005: The Light in the Piazza (Christopher Akerlind)
Lighting Design for a Play
- 2025: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Jon Clark)
- 2024: Appropriate (Jane Cox)
- 2023: Life of Pi (Tim Lutkin)
- 2022: The Lehman Trilogy (Jon Clark)
- 2020: A Christmas Carol (2019) (Hugh Vanstone)
- 2019: Ink (Neil Austin)
- 2018: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two (Neil Austin)
- 2017: Indecent (Christopher Akerlind)
- 2016: Long Day's Journey Into Night (Natasha Katz)
- 2015: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paule Constable)
- 2014: The Glass Menagerie (Natasha Katz)
- 2013: Lucky Guy (Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 2012: Peter and the Starcatcher (Jeff Croiter)
- 2011: War Horse (Paule Constable)
- 2010: Red (Neil Austin)
- 2009: Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Brian MacDevitt)
- 2008: The 39 Steps (Kevin Adams)
- 2007: The Coast of Utopia (Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner, Natasha Katz)
- 2006: The History Boys (Mark Henderson)
- 2005: The PIllowman (Brian MacDevitt)
Lighting Design of a Musical or Play
- 2004: Assassins (Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 2003: La Boheme (Nigel Levings)
- 2002: Into the Woods (Brian MacDevitt)
- 2001: The Producers (Peter Kaczorowski)
- 2000: Aida (Natasha Katz)
- 1999: Fosse (Andrew Bridge)
- 1998: The Lion King (Donald Holder)
- 1997: Chicago (Ken Billington)
- 1996: Bring in 'da Noise / Bring in 'da Funk (Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer)
- 1995: Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Bridge)
- 1994: An Inspector Calls (Rick Fisher)
- 1993: The Who's Tommy (Chris Parry)
- 1992: Jelly's Last Jam (Jules Fisher)
- 1991: The Will Rogers Follies (Jules Fisher)
- 1990: Grand Hotel The Musical (Jules Fisher)
- 1989: Jerome Robbins' Broadway (Jennifer Tipton)
- 1988: The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Bridge)
- 1987: Les Miserables (David Hersey)
- 1986: I'm Not Rappaport (Pat Collins)
- 1985:Big River (Richard Riddell)
- 1984: Sunday in the Park with George (Richard Nelson)
- 1983: Cats (David Hersey)
- 1982: Dreamgirls (Tharon Musser)
- 1981: Amadeus (John Bury)
- 1980: Evita (David Hersey)
- 1979: The Crucifer of Blood (Roger Morgan)
- 1978: Dancin' (Jules Fisher)
- 1977: The Cherry Orchard (Jennifer Tipton)
- 1976: A Chorus Line (Tharon Musser)
- 1975: Sherlock Holmes (Neil Peter Jampolis)
- 1974: Ulysses in Nighttown (Jules Fisher)
- 1973: Pippin (Jules Fisher)
- 1972: Follies (Tharon Musser)
- 1971: Story Theatre (R.H.Poindexter)
- 1970: Child's Play (Jo Mielziner)