Gotta Dance with AMERICAN DANCE MACHINE - Off-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 Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide..., Dames At Sea, Lion King, Nice Work..., A Chorus Line, Gypsy, 39 Steps, Journey's End, Virginia Woolf, Wonderful Town, Movin’ Out, 42nd Street, Iceman Cometh, Beauty & the Beast, Chicago, King & I, Lost in Yonkers, and Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Film/TV/Other: NY City Center Encores!, Carousel (PBS), Six by Sondheim, SYTYCD, West Side Story (SF Symphony), Dreamgirls, Chicago, Nine. Twelve time Artios Award winner. An RWS & Associates company. JASON STYRES, CSA cast such shows as the Tony Award Best Musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Broadway, 1st National Tour, and 2nd National Tour), Dames at Sea (Broadway), The Lion King (Broadway & National Tour), the Off-Broadway hit Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (National Tour), The War Boys (Off-Broadway), Trip of Love (Off-Broadway), and Nice Work If You Can Get It (Broadway), and for over 15 different productions for the highly prestigious New York City Center Encores! series. He has worked with such directors ... read more