Jane Cox, a lighting designer from Ireland who is based in the United States , won best lighting design of a play at the Tony Awards on Sunday night for her work on Appropriate on Broadway. The darkly comic American family drama also won best revival of a play for Pulitzer finalist, writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and best performance by a leading actress for Emmy and Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson. This weekend’s award was Cox’s first Tony win and fourth Tony nomination for best lighting design.
On Appropriate she worked with an all-women lighting team. Cox, based in Princeton, New Jersey, has been a theatre-maker for 30 years. She designs lighting for theatre, opera, dance and music, and is also an educator, producer and arts administrator.
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