Don't Dress for Dinner - Broadway Creative Team

DAMIAN ARNOLD, Producer, trained at LAMDA for three years. Producing credits: Don't Dress For Dinner (Chicago & subsequent transfer to Broadway, two Tony nominations), Gypsy with Imelda Staunton (West End, Olivier Award), Thark by Ben Travers, The Play That Goes Wrong (co-Producer, Broadway - Lyceum Theatre, US Tour, New World Stages), Art (UK Tour with Nigel Havers), Death of a Salesman (Young Vic and West End), A Very Expensive Poison (Old Vic). Co-Producer/Investor: Matilda (Broadway), Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury (West End & US tour), Dial M for Murder (UK tour), La Soiree (NY), 50 Shades! The Musical (NY), ... read more Broadway: Venus in Fur, Time Stands Still, A View from the Bridge, The Royal Family, The Color Purple, Doubt, Chicago, Dinner at Eight, Proof, Rabbit Hole, Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, The Most Happy Fella, The Sisters Rosensweig, Burn This, Penn & Teller, Ain't Misbehavin', Talley's Folly, Crimes of the Heart, Morning's at Seven, among others. Off-Broadway: Other Desert Cities, The Substance of Fire, A Life in the Theatre. Thirty-six seasons with MTC, Lincoln Center, Circle Rep, City Center Encores! Tony, Obie, DD, OCC awards; Theatre Hall of Fame. Graduate of Brown and Yale School of ... read more Ken Billington is a highly acclaimed lighting designer with over 50 years of experience in the theatre industry. Born in 1944 in Long Island, New York, Billington attended Hofstra University where he studied theatre and lighting design. After graduating, he began his career as a lighting designer in the Off-Broadway scene in the 1960s, eventually making his way to Broadway. Billington has designed the lighting for over 100 Broadway productions, including the original productions of Sweeney Todd, Chicago, and The Drowsy Chaperone. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design 21 times, winning three times for his ... read more Jess received the 2005 Tony Award for Lincoln Center's The Rivals. Other selected New York credits include Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Henry IV; Take Me Out; Enchanted April; Proof; Love! Valour! Compassion! ; The Most Happy Fella; Dinner With Friends; How I Learned To Drive; NYSF's Much Ado About Nothing; Buried Child and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). He will make his Met debut with Jack O'Brien's 2007 production of Il Trittico. Designs for film include A Walk On The Moon; Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Substance Of Fire. He is an Associate Professor at the ... read more From novelist and West End playwright to TV soap actor, B-movie film star, and Hamlet, to director of one of England's foremost theatres, his activities have spanned numerous aspects of the arts. In his early twenties his face became well known to British television viewers through regular appearances in several series. He later co-starred with Michael Crawford in the ITV sit-com ,Chalk and Cheese. He made a number of films, going on to star in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and Zeta One. On stage Hawdon was seen in several leading roles in London's West ... read more Broadway: Absurd Person Singular with Paxton Whitehead and Deborah Rush; Say Goodnight, Gracie with Frank Gorshin; Judgment at Nuremburg with Maximilian Schell, Martha Keller and George Grizzard; Night Must Fall with Matthew Broderick; The Sunshine Boys with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall; Inherit the Wind with Charles Durning and George C. Scott (Tony Award nomination, OCC Award); Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass; The Price with Eli Wallach (Tony Award nomination); Sweet Sue with Mary Tyler Moore and Lynn Redgrave; Loot! with Joseph Maher (Tony Award nomination, OCC Award); Corpse! with Milo O’Shea; The Golden Age with Stockard Channing, Irene Worth and ... read more