Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play for outstanding Lighting design of a play. The award was first presented in 2005 after the category of Best Lighting Design was divided into Lighting Design in a Play and Lighting Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award.

Winners and nominees
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Multiple wins

 * 3 Wins
 * Neil Austin
 * Brian MacDevitt
 * Natasha Katz


 * 2 Wins
 * Paule Constable

Multiple nominations

 * 6 Nominations
 * Brian MacDevitt
 * Paule Constable


 * 5 Nominations
 * Neil Austin
 * Donald Holder
 * Natasha Katz


 * 4 Nominations
 * Jane Cox


 * 3 Nominations
 * Jiyoun Chang
 * Jon Clark
 * Jane Cox
 * Peggy Eisenhauer
 * Jules Fisher
 * Mark Henderson
 * Kenneth Posner
 * Ben Stanton
 * Jennifer Tipton
 * Japhy Weideman
 * Jan Versweyveld


 * 2 Nominations
 * Christopher Akerlind
 * David Lander
 * Hugh Vanstone