Ken Billington (Lighting Design)
White Plains, New York

Highlights: 2006 Tony Award nominee for The Drowsy Chaperone; 1997 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Chicago; supervised lighting for the North American productions of Riverdance; Drama Desk nominee for outstanding lighting design on Grind (1985); additional Tony Award nominations for End of the World (1984), Foxfire (1983), Sweeney Todd (1979), Working (1978) and The Visit (1974); has designed for more than 80 Broadway productions and 65 operas, world-wide; other awards include Los Angeles Drama Critics, the first television Ace Award for lighting and the Luman award for his architectural designs. Mr. Billington made his Dallas Opera debut with Le Coq D’or and returned to design lighting for Orpheus in the Underworld (1986), Faust (1991, 1998) and our 1996 Porgy & Bess.