HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN

1st Stage

Tysons, Virginia

Playwright: E. M. Lewis

Director: Alex Levy*

Assistant Director/Props Designer/Master: Stephanie Davis

Lighting Designer: Helen Garcia-Alton*

Scenic Design: Kathryn Kawecki*

Costume Design: Debra Kim Sivigny

Sound Design: Gordon Nimmo-Smith*

Assistant Sound Designer: Alistair Edwards

Props Design: Cindy Landrum Jacobs

Intimacy coach: Lorraine Ressegger

2024 Helen Hayes Nominated:

*denotes member of the design team nominated above

Outstanding Lighting Design

Outstanding Set Design

Outstanding Sound Design

Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Play: Jacob Yeh

Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Play: Joel Ashur

Outstanding Director of a Play

Outstanding Ensemble in a Play

Outstanding Production

“The play, directed by Alex Levy with acute sensitivity, takes place mostly in a gorgeous Japanese garden (designed by Kathryn Kawecki and lit by Helen Garcia-Alton with affectionate attention to detail). The contours of its curving greenscape seem to mirror nature, lanterns along the flagstone path and boardwalk light up in different colors, birds chirp cheerily (sound design is by Gordon Nimmo-Smith), hanging lengths of rope emulate a tree, and a wooden bridge spans a serpentine pond that lacks for verisimilitude only koi fish. (The set is built above a pool of water.) The place seems so perfectly peaceful that personal troubles might for a while be forgotten. That well may be the reason Grace Wheeler comes here.”- Read more here

Photographer: Cameron Whitman Photography

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