Murder on the Orient Express - Regional (US) Creative Team

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 Debbie Bisno is the Resident Producer at McCarter Theatre Center. Her producing experience spans Broadway, Off-Broadway, West End and nonprofit/regional theater. Broadway highlights include the recent revival of Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune starring Audra McDonald & Michael Shannon; Grace, Mothers and Sons, War Horse, HAIR, Merchant of Venice. Off-B’way & London: Through a Glass Darkly with Carey Mulligan, Passion Play, Merrily We Roll Along. Debbie was Co-Founder/Producing Director of Chicago’s Roadworks Productions producing over 20 Midwest & World Premieres. She’s an Advisory Member of The Playwrights Realm and a Board Member of FASPE (Fellowships ... read more 25 Broadway shows including: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony Nomination), Therese Raquin (Tony Nomination), Come From Away, Flying Over Sunset, Freestyle Love Supreme, The New One, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee , LoveMusik, Grace. 100 Off- Broadway shows including The Last Five Years, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie. 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence. ... read more William Ivey Long has over 70 Broadway design credits in addition to his work in television, film, opera and ballet. Mr. Long has won 6 Tony Awards, with 15 nominations. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in January 2006 and recently completed a 4-year elected term as Chairman of the American Theatre Wing. ... read more Multi-award-winning Director and Playwright Emily Mann is in her 22nd season as Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre. Under Ms. Mann's leadership, McCarter was honored with the 1994 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater. McCarter directing credits include Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with Jimmy Smits (also on Broadway); the world premiere of Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon with Kristine Nielsen (also off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons); Uncle Vanya with Amanda Plummer (also adapted); All Over with Rosemary Harris and Michael Learned (also off-Broadway at The Roundabout; 2003 Obie Award for Directing); The Cherry Orchard with Jane Alexander, John Glover, ... read more Cheryl Mintz celebrated 30 seasons at McCarter Theatre Center, 25 as McCarter Theatre’s Resident Production Stage Manager, has Production Stage Managed 106 productions and 100+ workshops, 698 performances of A Christmas Carol and has collaborated with America’s finest directors, playwrights, designers and actors. 2022 marked Cheryl’s 37th production with Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emeritus, Emily Mann. Cheryl’s world premiere productions include Christopher Durang’s Tony winning Best Play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Turning Off the Morning News, Marina Carr’s Phaedra Backwards, John Guare’s Are You There, McPhee?, Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I, ... read more Previously at the Friedman: The American Plan,To Be or Not To Be, The Royal Family, Top Girls, and Time Stands Still. He is a Tony and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose work for theater and dance has been heard in over 500 Productions nationally and internationally, on Broadway and off. His accolades for Sound Design include the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and AUDELCO Awards. He a two-time Henry Hewes Design Award winner, and a proud recipient of the Princess Grace Award statue. ... read more