Artist Bio

Lap Chi Chu

(Bio as of February 2012)

Lap Chi Chu most recently collaborated with the Goodman on The Convert during the 2011/2012 Season. New York credits include productions at The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage Theatre, Performance Space 122 and The Kitchen. His regional credits include the Mark Taper Forum, the Geffen Playhouse, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage and the Evidence Room. He is the lighting/video designer for ChameckiLerner Dance Company, who have performed in the United States and Brazil. He has received multiple Bay Area Theater Critics Circle awards and a Drammy for Best Lighting, as well as a Lucille Lortel nomination for The Good Negro at The Public Theater. Mr. Chu is on the lighting design faculty at California Institute of the Arts.