Lap-Chi Chu has designed lighting for Theater, Opera and Dance across the country. His designs have been produced at the Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, San Jose Rep, Intiman Theater, Portland Stage Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, Syracuse Stage, Shakespeare&Co., Cleveland Playhouse, The Evidence Room, Virginia Opera, The Ordway Music Theater, New York Theatre Workshop (Usual Suspects contributing artist), Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, The Kitchen, Danspace, Primary Stages, and Juilliard Opera. As Resident Lighting Designer for Lincoln Center's Juilliard Drama School, Chu has designed more than 20 productions in the last decade. A regular collaborator and sets, lights, video designer with the dance company Chamecki/Lerner, he has designed the full-length pieces Costumes By God, Visible Content, Hidden Forms, I Mutantes Seras and Please Don't Leave Me, which were presented in North and South America. He has also served on the advisory board of the Downtown Arts Festival and the 4OUP Dance Series of Colloquium Dance Exchange in New York.

Chu recently served as Video Coordinator for the Center for New Theater at CalArts' inaugural production of King Lear, at the Brewery in Los Angeles and at the Frictions Festival in Dijon, France.

He is also a recipient of a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. In 1994 he was awarded the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship for lighting. He graduated from NYU and Northwestern University.