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RICHARD PILBROW occupies a truly unique position in the theatre. He is a West End and Broadway lighting designer. He also is a West End theatre producer and a world renowned theatre consultant as well as a film and theatre producer. Pilbrow is a pioneer of modern stage lighting and was retained by Lord Olivier to be theatre consultant to the National Theatre of Great Britain. His lighting has been see in over 300 productions in London, New York, Paris, Vienna, and Moscow. Nominated for many awards including the Tony, and winner of the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award, and others in Toronto and Vancouver, Pilbrow is a leading figure in the world of lighting design. He was the first British lighting designer to design the lighting for a Broadway musical, Zorba. On Broadway he was lighting designer for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Rothchilds, and at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Four Baboons Adoring The Sun (1993 Tony Award nomination). Published in 1970, his book, Stage Lighting, with the forward by Lord Olivier, became a standard work in Great Britain and the United States. This new book, Stage Lighting Design, The Art, The Craft, The Life, with forward by Hal Prince, was published in 1997 and revised in softcover in 2000. The book received a Theatre Crafts International "Lighting Product of the Year" Award for 1998.
Bio as of July, 2007.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Design - September, 2002
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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