Kenneth Posner

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Kenneth Posner is an American lighting designer, working on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in American regional theatre. His most notable designs include the musicals Wicked and Hairspray, two highly regarded musicals of the early 21st century. In 2007, he won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play for his work on The Coast of Utopia (Part 2 - Shipwreck).

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Kenneth Posner
Boston UniversityState University of New York, Purchase (BFA)
Lighting designer
1988-present
WickedHairspray
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play

Kenneth Posner is an American lighting designer, working on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in American regional theatre. His most notable designs include the musicals Wicked and Hairspray, two highly regarded musicals of the early 21st century. In 2007, he won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play for his work on The Coast of Utopia (Part 2 - Shipwreck).

He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design 11 times and won once for The Coast of Utopia (Part 2 - Shipwreck) in 2011. His nominations have included nods for Merchant of Venice (2011), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), Wicked (2004), Hairspray (2003), and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001). He has also been nominated 10 times for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design and received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting in 2003. In 2013, Posner achieved a near-sweep of the nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical, garnering nods in three of the four eligible slots (for Kinky Boots, Pippin, and Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella), though he lost to Matilda The Musical.

Posner was educated at SUNY Purchase, where Brian MacDevitt also attended. He is a 1983 graduate of Eastchester High School in Eastchester, New York. He also attended Boston University College of Fine Arts.

He is currently a resident of Verona, New Jersey and was born in 1966.

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YearCategoryWorkResult
2001Best Lighting DesignThe Adventures of Tom SawyerNominated
2003HairsprayNominated
2004WickedNominated
2005Best Lighting Design in a MusicalDirty Rotten ScoundrelsNominated
2007Best Lighting Design in a PlayThe Coast Of Utopia (Part 2 - Shipwreck)Won
2011The Merchant of VeniceNominated
2012Other Desert CitiesNominated
2013Best Lighting Design in a MusicalKinky BootsNominated
Rogers and Hammerstein's CinderellaNominated
PippinNominated
2019BeetlejuiceNominated
YearCategoryWorkResult
1991Outstanding Lighting DesignMachinalNominated
1998Pride's CrossingNominated
A View From the BridgeNominated
2000The Wild PartyNominated
2001The Adventures of Tom SawyerNominated
2002MonsterNominated
2004WickedNominated
2007The Coast Of Utopia (Part 2 - Shipwreck)Won
20099 to 5Nominated
2012Death Takes a HolidayNominated
2013PippinNominated
YearCategoryWorkResult
2003Sustained Excellence in LightingWon

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  • Kenneth Posner at the Internet Broadway Database