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
Jay Binder has cast over 70 Broadway productions, including the Tony Award winning productions of The Lion King, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Dames At Sea, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Gypsy, The King and I, Lost in Yonkers and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. In addition, he was fortunate enough to cast every Neil Simon play from 1990 through 2009. Mr. Binder was one of the founders and continues to be a driving force behind the highly-acclaimed Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert series at City Center in New York City. His work casting this series led ... read more
Broadway/NYC: [title of show], Dame Edna, Starmites, The Syringa Tree, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. National Tours: The Phantom of the Opera (Associate Designer), Fiddler on the Roof (Topol, Harvey Fierstein), Annie, Stars on Ice. International: Sweet Charity, The Producers, Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph, Caravan, The Syringa Tree. Award-winning themed attractions: Fantasmic!, Finding Nemo, Festival of the Lion King, Playhouse Disney, Voyage of the Little Mermaid (Disney); Shamu Rocks!, Shamu Miracles, Shamu Believe (SeaWorld); IllumiNights, Emerald Beat, Kinetix (Busch Gardens). ... read more
Hugh Wheeler was a prolific writer of plays, musicals, and novels, best known for his work in the theater. Born in London in 1912, Wheeler began his career as a journalist and worked for several newspapers and magazines before turning to writing for the stage.
Wheeler's first major success came in 1965 with the musical A Little Night Music, which he wrote in collaboration with composer Stephen Sondheim. The show, based on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, was a critical and commercial hit and won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Wheeler and Sondheim's collaboration continued with ... read more