Chu's lighting for Mlima’s Tale earned him the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Lighting in 2019 and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination in 2018. Also in 2018, he received an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design and a Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for Dangerous House. In 2009, Chu was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for his lighting of The Good Negro. ... read more
Recent Off-Broadway: Regrets, Maple and Vine, A Small Fire, Keep Your Pantheon and School, Home, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Vigil, Almost an Evening, The Piano Teacher, Fever Chart, Scarcity, Celebration and The Room. Recent regional: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Guthrie,) The Crucible (Hartford Stage,) and Three Sisters and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Yale Rep.) Suddenly Last Summer (Westport.) Associate Designer for Spamalot, Art and Closer. Faculty: Yale School of Drama. ... read more
