Corkman Bob Crowley picked up two Tony theatre awards at a ceremony in New York last night.
Crowley took the award for the best scenic design of a musical for Mary Poppinsand best scenic design of a play for The Coast of Utopiaalong with Scott Pask.
Tom Stoppard's The Coast of the Utopiaand the rock musical Spring Awakeningtook home the top honours in awards.
Stoppard's epic trilogy won seven of the awards given for Broadway productions and performances, including best play and director, and Spring Awakeningdominated the musical categories, taking home eight prizes including best musical and direction of a musical.
The Coast of Utopia'scrop of seven awards was a new record for a play, breaking the record of six set by Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in 1949 and matched last year by Alan Bennett's The History Boys.
The British playwright's eight-hour trilogy about 19th century Russian intellectual revolutionaries was first produced in London in 2002. Stoppard said a Russian version was in rehearsals in Moscow and there was talk of a French version.
Spring Awakeningwas created off-Broadway against the odds. It tackles taboo subjects such as teenage sex, homosexuality, abortion and masturbation, and has a cast of little-known actors ranging in age from 16 to 24.
The musical was adapted from Frank Wedekind's 1891 German play about teenage sexual angst, and features rock music, graphic language, partial nudity and a tragic ending.
Crowley, from Douglas Road in Cork, is a theatre director, scenic and costume designer who has been nominated for the Tony Award ten times. He won awards in 2000 for designing the Broadway production of Aida, in 1994 for his work on Carousel(1994) and last year, for set design on the play The History Boys.