Ken Billington




Ken Billington (born October 29, 1946) is an American lighting designer. He began his career in New York City working as an assistant to Tharon Musser.[1]


He was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Kenneth Arthur (an automobile dealer) and Ruth (Roane) Billington.


Billington has 96 Broadway productions to his credit including Copperfield, Checking Out, Moon Over Buffalo, Grind, Hello Dolly!, Meet Me in St. Louis, On the Twentieth Century, Side by Side by Sondheim, Lettice and Lovage, Tru, The Scottsboro Boys, and Sweeney Todd.


Off-Broadway productions include Sylvia, London Suite, Annie Warbucks, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Lisbon Traviata, What the Butler Saw, and Fortune and Men's Eyes.


Billington was the principal lighting designer for Radio City Music Hall from 1979 - 2004, where he created the lighting for the world-famous Christmas and Easter Spectaculars.[1] While there, he also created the lighting for the stage adaptation of the 1937 animated musical film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Other projects include lighting the 1975/76 season for the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Connecticut 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, Billington's lighting is featured in the extravaganza Fantasmic. His architectural designs can be seen in restaurants and clubs from Manhattan to Asia. Ken also designed the lighting plot and original design for all four current Dolly Parton Dixie Stampede locations.


Billington has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design eight times and in 1997 won for the revival of Chicago, which also garnered him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design.


In November 2015, Billington was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.[2]



Awards and nominations

































































































































Year
 Title
 Award
 Category
 Result
1974
The Visit
Tony Award
Best Lighting Design
 Nominated
1978
Working
Tony Award
Best Lighting Design
 Nominated
1979
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tony Award
Best Lighting Design
 Nominated

Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Lighting Design
 Nominated
1983
Foxfire
Tony Award
Best Lighting Design
 Nominated

Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Lighting Design
 Nominated
1984
End of the World
Tony Award
Best Lighting Design
 Nominated
1985
Grind
Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Lighting Design
 Nominated
1997
Chicago
Tony Award
Best Lighting Design
 Won

Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Lighting Design
 Won

Outer Critics Circle Award
 Best Lighting Design
 Nominated
2006
The Drowsy Chaperone
Tony Award
Best Lighting Design
 Nominated
2008
Sunday in the Park with George
Tony Award
Best Lighting Design
 Nominated

Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Lighting Design
 Nominated

Outer Critics Circle Award
 Outstanding Lighting Design
 Won
2010
Sondheim on Sondheim
Outer Critics Circle Award
 Outstanding Lighting Design
 Nominated
2011
The Scottsboro Boys
Tony Award
Best Lighting Design
 Nominated
2013
Chaplin
Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Lighting Design
 Nominated

Outer Critics Circle Award
 Outstanding Lighting Design
 Nominated


References





  1. ^ ab Rothstein, Mervyn "A Life in the Theatre: Ken Billington", playbill.com, December 25, 2008


  2. ^ Theater Hall of Fame Members List, November 23, 2015




External links




  • Ken Billington at the Internet Broadway Database


  • Biography American Theatre Wing


  • The Lighting Archive complete lighting paperwork for Sweeney Todd












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