LONDON — The What’s On Stage Theatregoers’ Choice Awards program, an annual event covering productions open in London’s West End and beyond over the previous 12 months, have added a Best Lighting Designer category, sponsored by White Light. Nominations for all the award categories come from members of the public. For the 2009 award, Best Lighting Designer nominees include:
• Chahine Yavroyan for Relocated at the Royal Court Upstairs and Wig Out! at the Royal Court Downstairs
• Jean Kalman for The Year of Magical Thinking at the NT Lyttelton and In The Red and Brown Water at the Young Vic
• Malcolm Rippeth for Brief Encounter at The Cinema, Haymarket and Six Characters In Search Of An Author at the Gielgud
• Mark Henderson for Under The Blue Sky at the Duke of York’s and Marguerite and The Sea at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
• Neil Austin for Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse and Vaudeville, No Man’s Land at the Duke of York’s and Oedipus at the NT Olivier
• Paule Constable for Othello and The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse and Ivanov at the Wyndham’s
Voting for the winners is now open at the whatsonstage.com website through until January 31 2009; the winners will be announced during the week of Feb. 9, 2009 with a winners concert held on Feb. 15. Last year saw over 25,000 people vote for their favorite shows and performers. Hairspray won the most categories.
A full list of nominees and nominated productions for other categories can be found at www.whatsonstage.com.
For more information on White Light, please visit www.whitelight.ltd.uk.
