{{short description|Australian stage lighting designer}} {{Infobox artist | name = Nigel Levings | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = Lighting design | training = | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = Tony Award for Best Lighting Design | website = }}
'''Nigel Levings''' is an Australian stage lighting designer. He has twice won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design,<ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/history/year-by-year/2023/ |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=www.tonyawards.com |language=en-US}}</ref> for the 1996 Broadway revival of ''The King and I''<ref>{{Citation |title=The King and I |date=2024-02-18 |work=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_King_and_I&oldid=1208790477 |access-date=2024-03-22 |language=en}}</ref> and for the 2003 Broadway restaging of ''La bohème.''<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 8, 2003 |title=Tony Awards |url=https://playbill.com/article/tonys-2003-best-lighting-design-nigel-levings-la-boheme-com-113602 |access-date=March 21, 2024 |website=Tonys 2003: Best Lighting Design - Nigel Levings (La Boheme)}}</ref>
==Opera productions==
* ''The Demon'' at the Bergen Festival and for Zurich Opera * ''Billy Budd'' for the Welsh National Opera, Opera Australia, Canadian Opera Company and for the English National Opera * ''Nabco'' for Opera Australia * ''Woyzeck'' for Opera Australia * ''Orfeo'' for Innsbruck Festwochen der Alten Musik and the Berlin State Opera * ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' for the 1994 Edinburgh Festival * ''La Belle Ivette'' for the English National Opera * ''Simon Boccanegra'' for the Royal Opera House, Washington National Opera and Dallas Opera * ''Falstaff'' for Théâtre du Chalet * ''Idomeneus'', ''Turandot'' and ''The Barber of Seville'' for the Houston Grand Opera * ''Queen of Spades'' for the Dallas Opera<ref name="ald">{{Cite web |title=Nigel Levings |url=http://www.ald.org.uk/NigelLevings/bio.php |accessdate=5 May 2010 |publisher=Association of Lighting Designers}}</ref>
== Broadway productions ==
* ''The King and I'' * ''La bohème'' ''<ref>{{cite web |title=Nigel Levings |url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=25758 |accessdate=5 May 2010 |publisher=The Broadway League}}</ref>''
== Awards and honors == Levings' design for ''La bohème'' won the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in 2003. It also won the Ovation Award in 2004.<ref>{{cite web | title = Nigel Levings | publisher = Houston Grand Opera | year = 2008 | url = http://www.houstongrandopera.org/nlevings | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100703073656/http://www.houstongrandopera.org/nlevings | archivedate = 2010-07-03 }}</ref> His design for the 1996 Broadway revival of ''The King and I'' won the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award.<ref name="mariinsky">{{Cite web |title=Nigel Levings |url=http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/light-designers/levings_nigel/ |accessdate=5 May 2010 |publisher=The State Academic Mariinsky Theatre}}</ref> His lighting for ''Billy Budd'' won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Lighting Design in 2000.<ref name="ald" />
== References == {{reflist}}
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