THEATRE UNDER THE STARS HOUSTON, TEXAS

ROBERTBILLIG(Music Director/ Conductor)
recently returned from conducting the national
tour of The Drowsy Chaperone. He was original
music director for Broadway productions of
Never Gonna Dance, the recent revival of Man
of La Man cha, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon
and Singin’ in the Rain. On Broadway he also
conducted Wicked, the revival of Chicago, The
Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Song and
Dance, My One and Only and The Magic Show.
He was musical supervisor and vocal arranger
for original productions of The Best Little
Whorehouse in Texas and Little Shop of
Horrors. Other conducting credits range from
television and nightclubs to international
symphony orchestras.
ZACHARY BOROVAY – (Projection
Design) Recent: Rock of Ages (Broadway), To Be
OrNot To Be (Broadway), Les Miserables (National
Tour), A Catered Affair (Broadway; Drama Desk
nom.), Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas
Spectacular, Xanadu (Broadway, National
Tour), NERDS (Philadelphia Theater Company),
and 13 (Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles).
Upcoming: Peepshow at the Planet Hollywood
Resort and Casino in Las Vegas and The Creature
from the Black Lagoon Experience at Universal
Studios Hollywood. Zak was the first Projection
DesignertojoinUSA829andacontributingeditor
for LiveDesign Magazine. www.borovay.com
DAVID WOLFSON (Associate Conductor)
has worked as music director, composer,
orchestrator, arranger, pianist, copyist or
synthesizer programmer for performances in
venues ranging from Broadway theatres to
elementary school cafetoriums. He is very
busy as the Music Director, Associate
Artistic Director and resident composer of
Experience Vocal Dance Company
(www.experiencevocaldance.org). In the last
year he has served as Music Director for the
Off-Broadway production Mark Twain’s
Blues, Family Opera Initiative’s Animal
Tales and Mothers and Sons at Music
Theatre of Connecticut, and has also
performed in the Broadway pits of Mary
Poppin, A Tale of Two Cities and Young
Frankenstein. He is enthusiastically married
to Lynn Wichern; their twelve-year-old son,
Adam, wants to be a writer when he grows
up, or possibly a bartender.
WHO’S WHO
MATT KINLEY (Scenic Designer) Matt
worked extensively as a freelance costume
and prop maker for stage, film and video with
Robert Allsopp Associates before returning to
study and subsequently graduate from the
Motley Theatre design course in 1994.Since
then he has enjoyed a long relationship with
the National Theatre as a designer, design
associate, and draughtsman on over forty
productions including Jerry Springer the
Opera, Noises Off, Baby Doll, Albert
Speer,The Coast of Utopia and My Fair Lady.
Since leaving the National Theatre five years
ago he has been working within commercial
theatre as an associate designer on shows
including The Woman in White ,My Fair
Lady (UK and US Tours), Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang (UK Tour), Les Miserables(Broadway
and Holland), Equus(West End) ,Mary
Poppins (UK/US/AUS and Holland tours).
Matt is also continuing to develop the concept
of this new design of Les Miserables for
future productions in 2010.
JOHN DEMOUS (Lighting Designer) John
designed several operas including Hansel and
Gretel for Opera Cleveland, Turn of the Screw
for Sacromento Opera, Dardanus and Comte
Ory for Wolftrap Opera and Cendrillion for
Manhattan School of Music. In Seattle, Cosi
fan Tutte, La Casa Verde and Orpheus Sings
of Love for Seattle Opera Young Artist
Program. John has supervised the lighting for
Chicago the Musical in the local language
since 2001 including the UK Tour,
Dusseldorph, Mexico City, Sao Paulo,
Moscow, Johannesburg, Paris, Milan,Tokyo
Japan, Seoul and Copenhagen. This year in
Spain and Holland. He went to the University
of Houston and was a usher for TUTS at the
old Music Hall.
COOKIE JORDAN (Hair and Wig Design)
has recently designed South Pacific (makeup)
, A Winters Tale, Cherry Orchard (Sam
Mendes director) Disney’s High School
Musical national tour and United Kingdom
tour. Cookie has recently designed make up
for the national tour of Dirty Dancing. She
has also built wigs for Broadway productions
like A Man for All Seasons, A Tale of Two
Cities, Wicked, Jersey Boys, Les Miserables,
Coast of Utopia and Wicked.