Ken Billington
Lighting Designer, Theater Designer
1946 –
Who is Ken Billington?
Ken Billington is an American lighting designer. He began his career in New York City working as an assistant to Tharon Musser.
He was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Kenneth Arthur and Ruth 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. While there, he also created the lighting for the stage adaption of the 1937 animated musical film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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- Born
- Dec 29, 1946
White Plains - Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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