Allen Lee Hughes is an American lighting designer for theater, dance, and opera.
He has a long association with Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.,[b] where the fellowship and internship program is named in his honor.
[10] In 1990 the founding director of Arena Stage, Zelda Fichandler, created the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship and Internship program to promote diversity with the theater industry.
Since its founding, more than 700 people have been mentored, including Obie Award winning director Lileana Blain-Cruz.
The chair of awards committee, Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, remarked, "It is especially gratifying to honor Allen Lee Hughes, whose nearly five decades of work in lighting design demonstrates the power of light and shadow to strengthen the dramaturgical core of every production on which he works.