Donald Holder received the 1998 Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for The Lion King (Broadway) and the Moliere Award for The Lion King (Paris).
Broadway
14 Tony® nominations, 61 productions, including McNeal; The Pirates of Penzance (2025); Paradise Square; Tootsie; Kiss Me Kate (2019 revival); Oslo; Anastasia; She
Loves Me (2016 revival); The King and I (2015 revival); The Bridges of Madison County; Golden Boy; South Pacific (2008
Tony Award); Oslo; Ragtime; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; A Streetcar Named Desire; Gem of the Ocean; Movin' Out; Juan Darien; On the Twentieth Century; You Can't Take It With You; Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark; Promises,
Promises; Annie (2012 revival); Arcadia; Cyrano de Bergerac; The Little Dog Laughed; Thoroughly Modern Millie; The Boy From Oz and many others.
Television
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel - Seasons 4 and 5 (Amazon Studios); Gossip Girl (HBO); Smash - Seasons one and two (NBC/ DreamWorks)
Film
Spirited (Apple Studios); Oceans 8 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Education
Yale School of Drama, Head of lighting design at Rutgers University