Biografia

Is a multiple Tony Award winning lighing designer. Designed the original productions of Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, Chicago, Dancin' & La Cage Aux Folles. Is even featured as himself (lighting designer: "Jules") in Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical film: All That Jazz.

Has won more Tony Awards, and been Tony-nominated more times, than any other Lighting Designer. He has eight wins as Best Lighting Designer: in 1973 for "Pippin," in 1974 for "Ulysses in Nighttown," in 1978 for "Dancin'," in 1990 for "Grand Hotel The Musical," in 1991 for "The Will Rogers Follies," in 1992 for "Jelly's Last Jam," and, with collaborator Peggy Eisenhauer, in 1996 for "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk" and in 2004 for "Assassins." He received eleven other Tony nominations, ten as Best Lighting Designer: in 1972 for "Jesus Christ Superstar," in 1976 for "Chicago," a second in 1978 for "Beatlemania" (in addition to his win that same year), in 1984 for "La Cage aux Folles," in 1986 for "Song & Dance," in 1993 for "Angels in America: Millenium Approaches," in 1994 for "Angels in America: Peristroika," and, with collaborator Eisenhauer, in 1998 for "Ragtime," and two in 2000, for "Marie Christine" and "The Wild Party." His other, eleventh Tony nomination, was as a co-producer of Best Musical nominee "Dancin'," which was his third nomination that year.

He and Peggy Eisenhauer were awarded the 1998 Los Angeles Alliance Ovation Award for Lighting Design (Large Theatre) for "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk," at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

He and Peggy Eisenhauer were awarded the 2004 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Lighting Design for "Caroline, or Change," at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

He was awarded the 1992 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Lighting Design for "Jelly's Last Jam" on Broadway in New York City.