He toured with Rachel Rosenthal, a performance artist, for 5 years, and also worked as a set designer at various theaters and in film in California, before moving to New York.
In 2010 he received his third Tony Award (for light design of a musical) for his work on "American Idiot".
He won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for his work on Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Other productions include Passing Strange, Next to Normal, the 2009 revival of Hair, Take Me Out, Everyday Rapture", solo shows for Anna Deavere Smith, Eve Ensler, Eric Bogosian and John Leguizamo, concerts for Audra McDonald, Patti Lupone, Sandra Bernhard and The Magnetic Fields.
He received the Henry Hewes Design Award in 2007 for lighting Spring Awakening and in 2010 for Hair[4] and in 2011 for American Idiot.