Awards & Winners

Ken Billington

Date of Birth 29-December-1946
Place of Birth White Plains
(Westchester County, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Lighting Designer
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. 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.

Awards by Ken Billington

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ken Billington.

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Chaplin: The Musical
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Chaplin: The Musical

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical The Scottsboro Boys

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Sondheim on Sondheim

2008


Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design
Honored for : Sunday in the Park with George

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical Sunday in the Park with George
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Sunday in the Park with George
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Sunday in the Park with George

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical The Drowsy Chaperone

1997


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design
Honored for : Chicago
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical
Honored for : Chicago

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Chicago
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Chicago
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical Chicago

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Grind

1984


Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical End of the World

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Foxfire
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical Foxfire

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical Working

1974


Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play or Musical The Visit