Howell Binkley

Resident Lighting Designer

Howell Binkley (Resident Lighting Designer/Co-Founder)  Howell is the proud co-founder of Parsons Dance where, alongside his dearest friend David Parsons, he has designed more than seventy pieces for the company.  Broadway works include: Jesus Christ Superstar, How To Succeed… starring Daniel Radcliffe (2011 Tony nomination,) Lombardi, Million Dollar Quartet, All About Me, Memphis, West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), Guys and Dolls, Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, In The Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Crybaby, Xanadu, LoveMusik, The Farnsworth Invention, Bridge & Tunnel, Jersey Boys (Tony Award Winner), Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Avenue Q, Golda’s Balcony, Hollywood Arms, The Look of Love, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Minnelli on Minnelli, The Full Monty, Parade, Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination), Sacrilege, Taking Sides, How To Succeed… with Matthew Broderick, High Society and Grease. Off-Broadway works include: The Kid at The New Group, Tin Pan Alley Rag, Never The Sinner, Landscape of The Body at The Signature Theatre, Sinatra at Radio City Music Hall, Radiant Baby at The Public Theatre and Batboy-The Musical.  Extensive Regional and dance works include Whistle Down The Wind at The Kennedy Center, Kander and Ebb’s Over and Over, The Joffrey Ballet’s Billboards,  six musicals in repertory for The Kennedy Center’s Sondheim Celebration and the lighting design for pieces at Alvin Ailey, MoMix, Peter Pucci Plus, Hubbard Street Dance, ABT, The LaJolla Playhouse, The Alley Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie, The McCarter Theatre, The Hartford Stage, The Old Globe and The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C.  Mr. Binkley is a five time Helen Hayes Award recipient and was awarded the 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier Award and Canadian Dora Award for Kiss of The Spider Woman.  2006 Henry Hewes Design Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony Award winner for Jersey Boys.  Howell teaches Master Classes in Lighting Design in multiple undergraduate and graduate arts programs and has created a yearly scholarship and internship opportunity at his Alma Mater, East Carolina University, for an outstanding student in his beloved field of Lighting Design.