Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play

{{Short description|American theatre award for Broadway}}

{{Infobox award

| name = Tony Award for
Best Lighting Design in a Play

| awarded_for = Best Lighting Design in a Play

| presenter = American Theatre Wing The Broadway League

| location = New York City

| holder = Jon Clark for Stranger Things: The First Shadow {{small|(2025)}}

| website = [http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/index.html TonyAwards.com]

}}

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

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rowspan="5" align="center"| 2005
{{small|(59th)}}
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| The Pillowman

| Brian MacDevitt

Doubt

| Pat Collins

Gem of the Ocean

| rowspan="2"| Donald Holder

A Streetcar Named Desire
rowspan="5" align="center"| 2006
{{small|(60th)}}
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| The History Boys

| Mark Henderson

Awake and Sing!

| Christopher Akerlind

Faith Healer

| Mark Henderson

Three Days of Rain

| Paul Gallo

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2007
{{small|(61st)}}
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| The Coast of Utopia

| Natasha Katz, Brian MacDevitt and Kenneth Posner

Coram Boy

| Paule Constable

Inherit the Wind

| Brian MacDevitt

Journey's End

| Jason Taylor

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2008
{{small|(62nd)}}
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| The 39 Steps

| Kevin Adams

August: Osage County

| Ann G. Wrightson

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

| Donald Holder

Macbeth

| Howard Harrison

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2009
{{small|(63rd)}}
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| Joe Turner's Come and Gone

| Brian MacDevitt

Equus

| David Hersey

Mary Stuart

| Hugh Vanstone

33 Variations

| David Lander

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rowspan="5" align="center"| 2010
{{small|(64th)}}
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| Red

| Neil Austin

ENRON

| Mark Henderson

Fences

| Brian MacDevitt

Hamlet

| Neil Austin

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2011
{{small|(65th)}}
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| War Horse

| Paule Constable

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

| David Lander

Jerusalem

| Mimi Jordan Sherin

The Merchant of Venice

| Kenneth Posner

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2012
{{small|(66th)}}
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| Peter and the Starcatcher

| Jeff Croiter

Death of a Salesman

| Brian MacDevitt

Other Desert Cities

| Kenneth Posner

The Road to Mecca

| Peter Kaczorowski

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2013
{{small|(67th)}}
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| Lucky Guy

| Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher

Golden Boy

| Donald Holder

The Nance

| Japhy Weideman

The Testament of Mary

| Jennifer Tipton

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2014
{{small|(68th)}}
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| The Glass Menagerie

| Natasha Katz

The Cripple of Inishmaan

| Paule Constable

Machinal

| Jane Cox

Of Mice and Men

| Japhy Weideman

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2015
{{small|(69th)}}
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| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

| Paule Constable

Airline Highway

| Japhy Weideman

Skylight

| Natasha Katz

Wolf Hall Parts One & Two

| Paule Constable and David Plater

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2016
{{small|(70th)}}
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| Long Day's Journey into Night

| Natasha Katz

The Crucible

| Jan Versweyveld

The Humans

| Justin Townsend

A View from the Bridge

| Jan Versweyveld

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2017
{{small|(71st)}}
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|Indecent

|Christopher Akerlind

A Doll's House, Part 2

|Jennifer Tipton

Jitney

|Jane Cox

Oslo

|Donald Holder

rowspan="6" align="center"| 2018
{{small|(72nd)}}
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|Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

|Neil Austin

Angels in America

|Paule Constable

Farinelli and the King

|Paul Russell

The Iceman Cometh

|Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher

Junk

|Ben Stanton

rowspan="7" align="center"| 2019
{{small|(73rd)}}
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| Ink

| Neil Austin

The Ferryman

| Peter Mumford

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

| Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer

Network

| Jan Versweyveld and Tal Yarden

To Kill a Mockingbird

| Jennifer Tipton

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rowspan="6" align="center"| 2020
{{small|(74th)}}
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| A Christmas Carol

| Hugh Vanstone

The Inheritance

| Jon Clark

Slave Play

| Jiyoun Chang

A Soldier's Play

| Allen Lee Hughes

The Sound Inside

| Heather Gilbert

rowspan="6" align="center"| 2022
{{small|(75th)}}
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| The Lehman Trilogy

| Jon Clark

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

| Jiyoun Chang

Hangmen

| Joshua Carr

Macbeth

| Jane Cox

The Skin of Our Teeth

| Yi Zhao

rowspan="8" align="center"| 2023
{{small|(76th)}}
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| Life of Pi

| Tim Lutkin

A Christmas Carol

| Ben Stanton

Death of a Salesman

| Jen Schriever

A Doll's House

| Jon Clark

Fat Ham

| Bradley King

Leopoldstadt

| Neil Austin

Prima Facie

| Natasha Chivers

rowspan="6" align="center" | 2024
{{small|(77th)}}
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|Appropriate

| Jane Cox

An Enemy of the People

| Isabella Byrd

Grey House

| Natasha Katz

Prayer for the French Republic

| Amith Chandrashaker

Stereophonic

| Jiyoun Chang

rowspan="6" align="center"|2025
{{small|(78th)}}
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|Stranger Things: The First Shadow

|Jon Clark

Good Night, and Good Luck

|Heather Gilbert and David Bengali

The Hills of California

|Natasha Chivers

John Proctor Is the Villain

|Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski

The Picture of Dorian Gray

|Nick Schlieper

Multiple wins

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; 3 Wins

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; 2 Wins

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Multiple nominations

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; 6 Nominations

; 5 Nominations

; 4 Nominations

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; 3 Nominations

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; 2 Nominations

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See also

References

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