Ken Billington (Lighting Designer)

Ken Billington has over 60 Broadway productions to his credit including Moon Over Buffalo, Hello Dolly!, Meet Me in St. Louis, On the Twentieth Century, Side by Side by Sondheim, Lettice and Lovage, Tru, and Sweeney Todd. Off-Broadway productions include Sylvia, London Suite, Party, The Only Thing Worse..., Annie Warbucks, Lips Together Teeth Apart, The Lisbon Traviata, What the Butler Saw and Fortune and Men's Eyes, to name a few. Since 1979 Ken has been the principal lighting designer for Radio City Music Hall, where he created the lighting for the world-famous Christmas and Easter Spectaculars. Other projects include lighting the 1975/76 season for the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, CT as well as projects such as Turandot at the Vienna State Opera, to nightclub acts for headliners Ann-Margret, Shirley MacLaine, and Liberace. At Disneyland, Ken's lighting is part of the magic of the nighttime extravaganza Fantasmic. His architectural designs can be seen in prominent restaurants and clubs from New York to Asia. Ken has been nominated for five Tony awards, received two Los Angeles Drama Critics awards, and has won the Ace award for his television designs.


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