kevin adams

theatre lighting

kevin adams

broadway

lighting

Kevin Adams, one of Fast Company's

100 Most Creative People in Business

"Kevin Adams is on the leading edge of the post-incandescant age on Broadway, exploring the potential of CFL bulbs, fluorescent tubes, glass neon, and the latest LED technology. His work for Spring Awakening--brilliant white light for the 19th century scenes and saturated color from what he calls "electric objects" for the songs--won him a Tony in 2007. He picked up a second Tony in 2008 for The 39 Steps, a third in 2010 for his lighting of the Green Day musical American Idiot and a fourth in 2014 for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Another Adams hit: a fabulous wall of light for the musical Passing Strange. One admirer said "it looked like Mark Rothko meets Japanese Pop."