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Lighting The Shows, LLC

      Bill Simonelli

 

             

Lighting Design

 

 

 

 

Extensive experience in stage lighting in all genres of live performance arts including concerts, musicals, plays, dance, and children’s theater.

 

Resident Lighting Designer:

Millstone Performing Arts Center, Millstone, NJ:  2008 - Present

Strand Theater, Lakewood, NJ  1997-2004, Interim: 2010, 2012, 2019 - Present

Brick Children's Community Theatre, Brick NJ: 2005 - Present

Miss New Jersey Pageant, Ocean City, NJ Boardwalk: 2015 - 2017

Jovodance/Mid Atlantic Dance Theater, Langhorne, Pa: 2017 - Present

Shore Repertory Theatre Co., Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan, NJ: 2011- Present

Dead On Productions, Vineland, NJ: 2015 - Present

Adams Dance Academy, Vineland, NJ:  2005 – Present

Cumberland County College, Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center, Vineland, NJ:  2005 - Present

Mercer County Dance Ensemble, Kelsey Theatre – W. Windsor, NJ:1995 – 1996, 2011 - 2016

 

 

Music Video: Lighting Director, Yanouv Kerner Virtuoso Flutist, Symphony Space, Broadway & 95th NY, NY 2015

Showcases APAP - Association of Performing Arts Presenters Convention, Hilton Midtown Manhattan, NY 2016

 

Concert Lighting Includes: Jefferson Starship, Bruce Hornsby, Renaissance, Bacon Brothers, Neil Sedaka, The Lettermen, Tony Orlando, David Sanborn, Richie Blackmore (Deep Purple), BJ Thomas, Jose Feliciano, Loudon Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, The Straubs, The Temptations, Annie Haslam, Don McLean, Dionne Warwick, Jim Brickman, Steven Lynch, Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Harry Connick Sr., US Army Jazz Band, U.S. Air Force Band, Garden State Philharmonic, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Chamber Orchestra, George Carlin, Carrot Top, Jim Breuer, Pat Cooper, Rich Little, Jamie Arron Kelley, Carl Palmer, Steve Trevelise, Gilbert Gottfried

 

Musical/Play Lighting Includes: West Side Story, Bat Boy, Seussical, Grease, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, They’re Playing Our Song, The Wizard of Oz, Jekyll & Hyde, Nunsense, A Charlie Brown Christmas, I Do I Do, It’s a Wonderful Life, Guys & Dolls, Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof, The Little Mermaid, A Chorus Line, Scrooge, The Music Man, Elf, Carousel, Barnum, Bye Bye Birdie, Man of La Mancha, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Blood Brothers, Peter Pan, Big - The Musical, The Sound of Music, A Year With Frog and Toad, A Christmas Carol, Gypsy, Shrek – The Musical, Forever Plaid, The 39 Steps, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Full Monty, Willy Wonka, Mary Poppins, A Christmas Story, The Nutcracker, The Miracle Worker, The Lion King, The Fantasticks, James and the Giant Peach, Frankenstein Rocks, Great Expectations, Aladdin, Cinderella

 

Award Nominations:  Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical/Play

2022  NJACT Perry Award  Descendants

2019  NJACT Perry Award  Seussical

2016  NJACT Perry Award  The Little Mermaid

2013  NJACT Perry Award  The 39 Steps

2012  NJACT Perry Award  Man of La Mancha

2006  NJACT Perry Award  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

2005  NJACT Perry Award  Jekyll & Hyde

2004  NJACT Perry Award  Man of La Mancha

 

Course Instructor:

Mercer County Community College - ETT 206 Stage Lighting Technology - 2011

 

Lighting Designer for the Following Theaters:

Algonquin Arts Players/Shore Repertory Theatre Co., Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan, NJ 2011 - Present

Millstone Performing Arts Center, Millstone Township, NJ 2008 - Present

Adams Dance Academy, Cumberland County College, Vineland, NJ  2005 - Present

Strand Theater, Lakewood, NJ 1997 - Present

Brick Children’s Community Theatre, Brick, NJ  2005 - Present

Stars in the Park, Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County College, W. Windsor, NJ  2004 - 2008

Fleeger Concert Hall, Rowan University – Glassboro, NJ 1997 - 2003

Stockton Performing Arts Center, Richard Stockton College of NJ – Pomona, NJ 1998 -1999

State Theatre – Portland, Maine 1995 - 1997

The Originals – Bar Mills, Maine 1995 - 1997

Bristol Riverside Theatre – Bristol, Pa. 1989 - 1997

Fine Arts Theatre, Rider University - Lawrenceville, NJ 1994 - 1995

The Theatre Guild of New Jersey - Trenton, NJ 1986 - 1995

Wichita Art Association – Wichita, Kansas 1990 - 1991

Society Hill Playhouse, Phila., Pa. 2013 - Present

Landis Theatre, Vineland, NJ 2015 - Present

 

 

 

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Photo Credit: © 2017 Shannon Rednour – www.shannonrednour.com 

The Fantasticks August 2017

Great Expectations

         December 2018

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Frankenstein Rocks

      October 2018

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