Donald Holder has designed 60 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, Paradise Square, Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, Anastasia, Oslo, Straight White Men, She Loves Me, Fiddler On The Roof, The King and I, On The Twentieth Century, The Bridges of Madison County, Spider-Man: 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 Girl” (HBO Max), and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Studios). Mr. Holder is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and head of the lighting design program at Rutgers University- Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Donald Holder
Donald Holder has designed 60 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, Paradise Square, Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, Anastasia, Oslo, Straight White Men, She Loves Me, Fiddler On The Roof, The King and I, On The Twentieth Century, The Bridges of Madison County, Spider-Man: 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 Girl” (HBO Max), and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Studios). Mr. Holder is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and head of the lighting design program at Rutgers University- Mason Gross School of the Arts.