The Big Love - Broadway Creative Team

Ken Billington is a highly acclaimed lighting designer with over 50 years of experience in the theatre industry. Born in 1944 in Long Island, New York, Billington attended Hofstra University where he studied theatre and lighting design. After graduating, he began his career as a lighting designer in the Off-Broadway scene in the 1960s, eventually making his way to Broadway. Billington has designed the lighting for over 100 Broadway productions, including the original productions of Sweeney Todd, Chicago, and The Drowsy Chaperone. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design 21 times, winning three times for his ... read more More than 100 Broadway/Off-Broadway credits including: Present Laughter, A View From the Bridge, Waiting for Godot, Thurgood, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Trumpery, Heartbreak House, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, On Golden Pond, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Master Class, The Sisters Rosensweig. Metropolitan Opera: revival of Adriana Lecouvreur (2009), Dialogue of the Carmelites, The Great Gatsby; Chicago Lyric Opera: Nabucco and Rigoletto; SF Opera: La Favorita. Film: Arthur, Can't Stop the Music, Glengarry Glen Ross. Awards: Irene Sharaff Life Time Achievement Award, Theatre Hall of Fame, 15 Tony Award nominations. Professor, Yale School of Drama. London-born Paul Huntley has worked hundreds of Broadway shows, most memorably the original productions of Amadeus, Cats, Evita, Sweeney Todd, The Producers and Hairspray. A recipient of the Drama Desk and Tony awards, he has also worked with the some of the most legendary leading ladies of the cinema, ranging from Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh to Jane Fonda and Faye Dunaway. Current shows include Anything Goes, War Horse, Other Desert Cities and Leap of Faith. WitzEnd partners are Michael Jackowitz, Jeffrey Grove, Marvin Kahan and Laura Dean-Koch in association with Sunshine Productions. Credit highlights: Escape to Margaritaville, Tuck Everlasting, Daddy Long Legs, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, How to Succeed... Upcoming: Hawaiian Goddess Project and Poseidon. www.witzendtheatricals.com. Evelyn Sakash is a production designer. She won a Daytime Creative Arts Emmy award for Outstanding Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design. Producing credits include the Tony Award-winning The Book of Mormon, God of Carnage and Proof; also Jerusalem, The Motherf**ker With the Hat, A View From the Bridge (2010), The Retreat From Moscow, The Play What I Wrote, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Not About Nightingales, The Chairs, Exit the King. His general management company has been responsible for more than 60 productions, most recently Fences, You're Welcome America, The Seagull and Boeing-Boeing. Thompson is the recipient of the 2010 Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing.