David Hersey

David Hersey has designed the lighting for hundreds of plays, musicals, operas and ballets. His many awards include Tony Awards for Best Lighting Design for Evita, Cats and Les Misérables, the Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Burning Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night, Tony Nominations for The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby, Starlight Express, Miss Saigon and Oklahoma! and Olivier Nominations for Oliver, Glengarry Glen Ross, Martin Guerre, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, My Fair Lady and The Coast of Utopia. David designed Equus in London’s West End which then played on Broadway for which he won the Drama Desk Award.

Recent engagements: Fiddler on the Roof, Show Boat, Merrily We Roll Along