Ken Billington is a lighting designer. He 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. He was the principal lighting designer for Radio City Music Hall from 1979 - 2004. He 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.
You’ll hear one of the industry’s best lighting designers talk about . . .
- How he prepares to light a show before he even sees a rehearsal.
- How Directors should work with lighting (and all) designers.
- The incredible changes in the lighting industry over the past 3 decades . . . and what’s coming next.
- How to speed up the “bidding” process and save money.
- One of my favorite answers to my “Genie” question and how I’m going to steal it.
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