Donald Holder

Personal Information
MTC: Glimmer, Glimmer, and Shine; Three Days of Rain; Memory of Water; After Play; The Extra Man; Kindertransport; many others. Broadway: Movin' Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Lion King (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle awards), Juan Darien (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, King Hedley II, The Green Bird, Bells Are Ringing, Hughie, Holiday, Eastern Standard, The Boy from Oz (upcoming). Off-Broadway: A Man of No Importance, Observe the Sons of Ulster..., Chaucer in Rome, Everett Beekin (Lincoln Center), Jitney, Tiny Alice, Saturday Night, Sight Unseen, Three Days of Rain, Communicating Doors, The Changeling, Jeffrey, Pterodactyls, many others.
 
Credits

Designer
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 Corruption Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 03/11/2024 Lighting Designer
2 Oslo Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 07/11/2016 Lighting Designer
3 Whorl Inside a Loop Second Stage Theatre 08/27/2015 Lighting Designer
4 Heisenberg New York City Center/ Stage II 06/03/2015 Lighting Designer
5 The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin Laura Pels Theatre (Current) 06/27/2013 Lighting Designer
6 3 Kinds of Exile Linda Gross Theater 06/11/2013 Lighting Designer
7 Much Ado About Nothing The Duke on 42nd Street 02/17/2013 Lighting Designer
8 Blood and Gifts Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 11/21/2011 Lighting Designer
9 The Blue Flower Second Stage Theatre 11/09/2011 Lighting Designer
10 Gruesome Playground Injuries Second Stage Theatre 01/23/2011 Lighting Designer
11 Happiness Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 03/30/2009 Lighting Designer
12 Romantic Poetry New York City Center/ Stage I 10/28/2008 Lighting Designer
13 Some Americans Abroad Second Stage Theatre 07/24/2008 Lighting Designer
14 The Marriage of Bette and Boo Laura Pels Theatre (Current) 07/13/2008 Lighting Designer
15 Saved Playwrights Horizons 06/03/2008 Lighting Designer
16 Almost an Evening Theatres at 45 Bleecker/ Bleecker Street Theatre 04/02/2008 Lighting Designer
17 Yellow Face Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 12/10/2007 Lighting Designer
18 Romeo and Juliet Delacorte Theater 06/19/2007 Lighting Designer
19 The Pain and the Itch Playwrights Horizons 09/21/2006 Lighting Designer
20 Sore Throats The Duke on 42nd Street 04/30/2006 Lighting Designer
21 The Little Dog Laughed Second Stage Theatre 01/10/2006 Lighting Designer
22 The Great American Trailer Park Musical New World Stages/ Stage I 09/27/2005 Lighting Designer
23 Birdie Blue Second Stage Theatre 06/23/2005 Lighting Designer
24 Chinese Friends Playwrights Horizons 05/25/2004 Lighting Designer
25 The Joys of Sex Variety Arts Theatre 05/12/2004 Lighting Designer
26 The Last Letter Lucille Lortel Theatre 12/18/2003 Lighting Designer
27 Elegies Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 03/24/2003 Lighting Designer
28 Polish Joke New York City Center/ Stage II 03/18/2003 Lighting Designer
29 Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 02/24/2003 Lighting Designer
30 A Man of No Importance Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 10/10/2002 Lighting Designer
31 Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate) Julia Miles Theater 01/09/2002 Lighting Designer
32 Everett Beekin Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 11/14/2001 Designer
33 Once Around the City Second Stage Theatre 06/12/2001 Lighting Designer
34 Chaucer in Rome Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 06/07/2001 Lighting Designer
35 Glimmer, Glimmer & Shine New York City Center/ Stage I 05/24/2001 Lighting Designer
36 Tiny Alice Second Stage Theatre 12/05/2000 Lighting Designer
37 Julius Caesar Delacorte Theater 08/20/2000 Lighting Designer
38 Jitney Second Stage Theatre 04/25/2000 Lighting Designer
39 Saturday Night Second Stage Theatre 02/17/2000 Lighting Designer
40 Jar the Floor Second Stage Theatre 08/11/1999 Lighting Designer
41 Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight Promenade Theatre 05/13/1999 Lighting Designer
42 Macbeth American Place Theatre 03/18/1999 Lighting Designer
43 The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told New York Theatre Workshop 12/01/1998 Lighting Designer
44 The Memory of Water New York City Center/ Stage II 11/10/1998 Lighting Designer
45 Communicating Doors Variety Arts Theatre 08/20/1998 Lighting Designer
46 From Above Playwrights Horizons 04/23/1998 Lighting Designer
47 Richard II Theater at St. Clement's Church 02/15/1998 Lighting Designer
48 Richard III Theater at St. Clement's Church 02/15/1998 Lighting Designer
49 The Maiden's Prayer Vineyard Theatre 02/07/1998 Lighting Designer
50 Three Days of Rain New York City Center/ Stage II 11/12/1997 Lighting Designer
51 Plunge Playwrights Horizons 09/28/1997 Lighting Designer
52 All My Sons Laura Pels Theatre (Former) 05/04/1997 Lighting Designer
53 The Red Address McGinn-Cazale Theatre 04/16/1997 Lighting Designer
54 The Changeling Theater at St. Clement's Church 03/01/1997 Lighting Designer
55 Minutes from the Blue Route Linda Gross Theater 01/30/1997 Lighting Designer
56 Fit to Be Tied Playwrights Horizons 10/20/1996 Lighting Designer
57 The Green Bird New Victory Theater 03/01/1996 Lighting Designer
58 The Amazing Metrano Union Square Theatre 02/06/1996 Lighting Designer
59 Measure for Measure Theater at St. Clement's Church 01/09/1996 Lighting Designer
60 Young Playwrights Festival (1995) Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 10/04/1995 Lighting Designer
61 Crumbs from the Table of Joy McGinn-Cazale Theatre 05/09/1995 Lighting Designer
62 Phaedra Vineyard Theatre 04/21/1995 Lighting Designer
63 Luck, Pluck, and Virtue Linda Gross Theater 03/18/1995 Lighting Designer
64 Henry VI Theater at St. Clement's Church 03/06/1995 Lighting Designer
65 Rush Limbaugh in Night School McGinn-Cazale Theatre 02/22/1995 Lighting Designer
66 Raised in Captivity Vineyard Theatre 02/09/1995 Lighting Designer
67 After-Play New World Stages/ Stage II 01/10/1995 Lighting Designer
68 Why We Have a Body Judith Anderson Theatre 11/01/1994 Lighting Designer
69 The Naked Truth WPA Theatre 05/26/1994 Lighting Designer
70 Kindertransport New York City Center/ Stage I 04/26/1994 Lighting Designer
71 Titus Andronicus Theater at St. Clement's Church 03/03/1994 Lighting Designer
72 Avenue X Playwrights Horizons 01/28/1994 Lighting Designer
73 Pterodactyls Vineyard Theatre 10/07/1993 Lighting Designer
74 A Quarrel of Sparrows Promenade Theatre 09/09/1993 Lighting Designer
75 The Root Linda Gross Theater 03/05/1993 Lighting Designer
76 Jeffrey WPA Theatre 01/20/1993 Lighting Designer
77 Nothing Sacred Linda Gross Theater 10/21/1992 Lighting Designer
78 The Extra Man New York City Center/ Stage I 04/28/1992 Lighting Designer
79 Sight Unseen New York City Center/ Stage II 01/07/1992 Lighting Designer
80 Dearly Departed McGinn-Cazale Theatre 12/03/1991 Lighting Designer
81 The Good Times Are Killing Me Minetta Lane Theatre 07/30/1991 Lighting Designer
82 Selling Off John Houseman Theatre 06/04/1991 Lighting Designer
83 The Good Times Are Killing Me McGinn-Cazale Theatre 03/26/1991 Lighting Designer
84 The American Plan New York City Center/ Stage I 12/04/1990 Lighting Designer
85 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 11/13/1990 Lighting Designer
86 Mi Vida Loca New York City Center/ Stage II 05/08/1990 Lighting Designer
87 Spunk:Three Tales by Zora Neale Hurston Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 04/10/1990 Lighting Designer
88 The American Plan New York City Center/ Stage II 01/23/1990 Lighting Designer
89 The Return Jewish Repertory Theatre 12/16/1989 Lighting Designer
90 Half a World Away Jewish Repertory Theatre 06/23/1987 Lighting Designer
Awards
Award Production Function
1 NOMINATED 2006 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design The Little Dog Laughed Lighting Designer
2 WON 2003 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Lighting Designer
3 NOMINATED 2003 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Lighting Designer
4 NOMINATED 2001 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Jitney Lighting Designer
5 NOMINATED 1990 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Spunk:Three Tales by Zora Neale Hurston Lighting Designer