HAMILTON's Howell Binkley Wins 2016 Tony Award for Best Lighting - Musical

Howell Binkley has won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for Hamilton.

His Broadway credits include Allegiance, After Midnight (2014 Tony nom), How to Succeed (2011 Tony nom), West Side Story (2009 Tony nom), In the Heights (2008 Tony nom), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, The Full Monty, Parade and Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nom/Oliver and Dora winner).

He is the co-founder/resident lighting designer of Parsons Dance.

HAMILTON opened on August 6, 2016 at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre. The cast of Hamilton is comprised of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Daveed Diggs(Marquis De Lafayette,Thomas Jefferson), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler),Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Rory O'Malley (King George), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler, Maria Reynolds), Javier Muñoz (Hamilton alternate), Okieriete Onaodowan(Hercules Mulligan, James Madison), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr),Anthony Ramos(John Laurens, PhilipHamilton) and Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton).

With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.

HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation's first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway,HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America now.

Photo: Jennifer Broski