kevin adams

theatre lighting

kevin adams

broadway

lighting

Fall 2026

Kevin Adams' book on designing and collaborating for the stage comes out. Stay tuned for more info.

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."