
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
Lighting The Shows, LLC
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Photo Credit: © 2017 Shannon Rednour – www.shannonrednour.com
Great Expectations
December 2018
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Frankenstein Rocks
October 2018






