Nigel Levings

Nigel Levings is an Australian stage lighting designer. He has twice won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design, for the 1996 Broadway revival of The King and I and for the 2003 Broadway restaging of ''La bohème.''

Opera productions

The Demon at the Bergen Festival and for Zurich OperaBilly Budd for the Welsh National Opera, Opera Australia, Canadian Opera Company and for the English National OperaNabco for Opera AustraliaWoyzeck for Opera AustraliaOrfeo for Innsbruck Festwochen der Alten Musik and the Berlin State Opera

A Midsummer Night's Dream for the 1994 Edinburgh FestivalLa Belle Ivette for the English National OperaSimon Boccanegra for the Royal Opera House, Washington National Opera and Dallas OperaFalstaff for Théâtre du ChaletIdomeneus, Turandot and The Barber of Seville for the Houston Grand OperaQueen of Spades for the Dallas Opera

Broadway productions

The King and ILa bohème ''''

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. 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. His lighting for Billy Budd won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Lighting Design in 2000.