Ellen Sorrin, President
Ellen Sorrin is Director of the George Balanchine Trust as well as Managing Director of the New York Choreographic Institute (an affiliate of New York City Ballet). In addition, she is a member of the advisory committee of The Jerome Robbins Trust. She was, until June of 2004, the Director of Education at New York City Ballet. As Director of Special Projects from 1988-1996, she produced, on behalf of the Company, The American Music Festival (a 3 week festival of new ballets) in 1988; Ray Charles in Concert with New York City Ballet, a 1989 broadcast on Live from Lincoln Center; Balanchine in America (Serenade and Western Symphony) broadcast on Great Performances in 1989 and 1990; A Festival of Jerome Robbins' Ballets in 1990; Accent on the Offbeat (documentary) filmed in 1993, and released on video by Sony Classical and broadcast on PBS in 1994; The Balanchine Celebration videotaped in June, 1993 and broadcast the same year on PBS; George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, a feature film released by Warner Bros. in 1994 and on home video in 1995; and The Diamond Project, a festival of world premieres featuring emerging and established choreographers, in 1992 and 1994. From 1981-84, she worked at Alan Wasser Associates, a Broadway general management firm.
She has free-lanced as a producer of special events, including Dancing for Life, a 1987 benefit for AIDS care, education and research, which combined the efforts of the New York dance community, directed by Jerome Robbins. In 1996, she produced and directed Barbara Matera: Costume Maker for City Arts on WNET/Thirteen in New York.
Mark Stanley, Vice President
Mark Stanley is currently the Resident Lighting Designer for the New York City Ballet where he has designed over 150 premiers for their repertory including works for Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Susan Stroman, Christopher D'Amboise, Kevin O'Day, William Forsythe, Ulysses Dove, and others. In addition, he has designed for Susan Marshall, David Gordon, Doug Varone, Tim Rushton, Nicolo Fonte,Lynn Taylor-Corbett, Maurico Weinrott, Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean, and ballet companies across Europe and the USA. Mr. Stanley previously served as Resident Designer for the New York City Opera, lighting over 20 new productions for the resident and touring companies. He continues to design opera for numerous regional companies. He has designed plays for The Kennedy Center, The Huntington Theatre Co., Long Wharf, The Ordway, Goodspeed, and many Off-Broadway companies. His designs have been seen nationally on PBS for "Live from Lincoln Center" and "Great Performances". Mr. Stanley is Associate Professor of Lighting at The School of Theatre, Boston University and is the author of The Color of Light Workbook. Mark received his Master of Fine Arts in lighting design from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1981.
Alan Adelman, Secretary
Alan Adelman is best known as a lighting designer committed to the efforts of theater artists, producers, and archivists to translate existing stage works, as well as create new productions, specifically for television and film. Credits include over 60 shows spanning a twenty year history with the "Great Performances" PBS series including sixteen "Dance in America" programs and eight "American Playhouse" original productions showcasing work by many of the most recognized playwrights, directors, choreographers and musical icons of our time. His television work has been honored with three Emmy Awards and sixteen nominations. He is the resident lighting designer/consultant for the "Live from Lincoln Center" series (over 30 shows) as well as designer for many other in-performance based television series including "Onstage at the Kennedy Center", "In Performance at the White House", and "Broadway Television Network". Feature film credits have included special lighting for Brian DePalma's Carlito's Way, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (with New York City Ballet), Elmo In Grouchland and documentaries on Alvin Ailey and The Philadelphia Orchestra. Other stage and screen design work has included lighting for San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Juilliard Opera as well as numerous concert and special events both large and small with artists as diverse as P.Diddy, Reba McEntire, Eminem, The Rolling Stones, JayZ, Cirque du Soleil, Sting, Renee Fleming, San Francisco Symphony, Audra McDonald, The Boston Pops and multiple projects with Wynton Marsalis including the Peabody Award winning "Marsalis On Music" series from Tanglewood. He received his Master of Fine Arts in lighting design from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1978.
Ken Billington
Lighting Designer / Principal, Ken Billington Associates
Ken Billington started his career with the off-Broadway hit Fortune and Men's Eyes. Since then he has designed over 80 Broadway and 70 Off-Broadway shows including Chicago, Fame, Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs..., Footloose, Candide, Annie, Foxfire, Tru, Sweeney Todd, Side by Side by Sondheim, On the Twentieth Century, Annie Warbucks, Sylvia, London Suite, and Snoopy. Other projects include Fantasmic! at Disneyland, Jubilee! at Bally's Las Vegas supervising Riverdance and for 26 years the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. Ken is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics, and Ace Award's and the Lumen for his architectural lighting.
Ken Tabachnick
Ken Tabachnick has worked in entertainment for 30 years. As a lighting designer, he collaborated with companies such as The Kirov Opera and Ballet, the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the New York City Ballet, the Lyon Opera Ballet, the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Trisha Brown Company. He worked with many other American choreographers and remains resident lighting designer for the Stephen Petronio Company. Mr. Tabachnick has worked in theatre, in television, and in opera. He also served as the Resident Lighting Designer at New York City Opera for three years. In addition to his design work, Mr.Tabachnick is a Member of indieWIRE LLC, has served as Executive Director of the Hamptons' International Film Festival and as the Corporate Relations Director and Gotham Awards Producer for the Independent Feature Project. Mr. Tabachnick practiced law, advising clients in a broad range of matters including trademark, copyright, licensing, and entertainment issues. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Stephen Petronio Company. Currently, Mr. Tabachnick is the General Manager of New York City Ballet.
John McGraw
John McGraw came to New York City in the fall of 1971 with a plan to start a small theatrical lighting rental company and to work on Broadway as an electrician. From 1971 to 1979 John worked on a number of Broadway shows as an electrician or master electrician; some of the productions included Voices, designed by Jo Mielziner; and Grease, designed by Karl Eigsti. Over 27 years the small lighting company, Production Arts Lighting, grew to over 100 employees with offices in Los Angeles, London, New York, and New Jersey. Production Arts provided rental and permanent installation services to a wide range of clients around the world. John was particularly known for his commitment to encouraging young lighting designers and for working with emerging dance and theatre companies. In 1998 the company was sold to Production Resource Group.
John served as the second President of the Theatrical Dealers Association, the industry trade association and precursor to ESTA. While chair of the Business Practices Committee he started the Dealer's Business Survey to give dealers a tool to use in running their businesses more profitably. John also chaired or worked on several committees responsible for important milestones in the history of the association, including the evolution from the TDA to ESTA and the creation of the code of conduct for ESTA members. In 1998, the ESTA Board of Directors bestowed the Association's highest honor on John, the Eva Swan Award for exceptional long-term commitment to the Association by an individual. John continues to be active on special projects for ESTA and the ESTA Board.
In 2004, USITT awarded a special citation to John for outstanding, innovative, and continuous service to the entertainment industry as a technician, union stagehand, co-founder of Production Arts Lighting, and President of ESTA.
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