Kim Killingsworth

Profile

Kim joined Design Partners Inc. in 1994. Kim's extensive experience in live events, film, television, and architectural lighting has made him a two-time Emmy® Award winner with multiple theatrical lighting design awards, including the prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Lifetime Achievement Award. Kim's special and unique expertise with live dramatic television programs is displayed in The West Wing (season 7, "The Debate"), two episodes of Will and Grace, On Golden Pond, and Fail Safe.

Awards for Outstanding Lighting

2002
LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE Angstrom Lifetime Achievement Award
2000
EMMY AWARD "Fail Safe"
1993
NAACP THEATRE AWARD (Equity) "Into the Woods"
1990
DRAMA-LOGUE AWARD "Jesus Christ Superstar"
1990
DRAMA-LOGUE AWARD "Chess"
1989
DRAMA-LOGUE AWARD "Follies"
1986
EMMY AWARD "Neil Diamond...Hello Again, Hello"
1975
SHOWCASE MAGAZINE DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
1975
SHOWCASE MAGAZINE AWARD "Applause"
1975
SHOWCASE MAGAZINE AWARD "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Specials, Concerts & One-Time Events

• The Academy of Music (Philadelphia Orchestra Association with Sting — 2010)
• Hollywood Bowl Opening Night Gala (2007 — 2010)
• 1984 Olympic Reunion Event (2009)
• The Academy of Music (Philadelphia Orchestra Association with James Taylor — 2009)
• Star Trek: The Tour (SEE Touring Prods with CBS/Paramount — 2008)
• The Academy of Music (Philadelphia Orchestra Association with Billy Joel — 2008)
• Hometown Hero's (Direct TV — 2008)
• Street Drum Corps Webcast (2008)
• Los Angeles Opera Gala (HDNET — 2008)
• The Price is Right Primetime Specials (CBS — 2008)
• Cedars-Sinai Cancer Research Benefit (Beverly Hilton Hotel — 2007)
• Dame Kiri Te Kanawa: Farewell Performance Pre-show (Orange County Performing Arts Center — 2007)
• Funniest Mom in America 3 (Nickelodeon special — 2007)
• 54th Annual Share Boomtown (live benefit show, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium — 2007)
• 150th Anniversary of American Music Academy (Philadelphia Orchestra Association with Rod Stewart— 2007)
• Reagan Presidential Library Freedom Awards (live event — 2007)
• Naked Brothers Band Special (Nickelodeon — 2007)
• CMT Giants: Reba (audience LD) (CMT — 2006)
• Smallville Special (ABC Family — 2004)
• Disney Cheerleading Nationals (ESPN — 2003–2004)
• Celebration of Gospel (BET — 2001)
• Disney's California Adventure Theme Park Opening (2001)
• Share Boomtown (2002)
• Society of Motion Picture & Television Art Directors Gala (2000)

Theatrical Releases

• American Dreamz (Universal — 2005)
• Almost Famous (DreamWorks SKG — 1999)

Live Television

• Will & Grace Live "Bathroom Humor" (NBC — 2006)
• Dead Famous Live, "Haunted Hollywood" (Living TV United Kingdom — 2005)
• The West Wing, "The Debate" (NBC — 2005)
• Will and Grace Live, "Alive and Schticking" (NBC — 2005)
• Fail Safe (CBS — 2000)
• On Golden Pond (CBS — 2001)

Series & Pilots

• The Talk Season Two (CBS — 2012)
• The Talk, "New York Week" (CBS — 2011)
• The Talk (CBS — 2011)
• Tengo Talento Season 2 & 3(KCRA — 2010)
• Untitled Surf Show Pilot (Nickelodeon — 2010)
• Tengo Talento (KCRA — 2009)
• General Hospital (ABC — 2009)
• Nightshift (ABC Soapnet — 2008)
• Live From Dillon ( Direct TV— 2008)
• Big Brother Sequester House (CBS — 2005-2008)
• The Bold and The Beautiful, concert segment (CBS — 2007)
• Battle of the Bods, pilot (True Entertainment/Fox Reality Original — 2007)
• Sponge Bob SquarePants (live action segments — 2007)
• TEENick "Hairspray" (2007)
• Slime Ball (Nickelodeon game show series — 2007)
• The Dance (pilot — 2007)
• Big Brother 7 (season finale remote — CBS)
• MADtv (FOX — 2006-2007)
• Cinema Spy (Nickelodeon — 2007)
• Alarma TV (studio redesign — 2007)
• TEENick (series — 2006-2007)
• TEENick (Nickelodeon — 2003-2006)
• Passions (location remotes & Radford Stage 9 "Tsunami" episodes) (NBC — 2004-2005)
• Slime Time (Nickelodeon pilot & series — 2005)
• On The Cover Game Show (PAX — 2004)
• Walt Disney World Christmas Parade (2002-2003, 2005)
• The Debate Show (pilot — 2004)
• Blue Collar TV (WB — 2004)
• The Yesterday Show (pilot — 2004)
• U-Pick Live (Nickelodeon — 2004)
• The Fairly Odd Parents Puppets (Nickelodeon — 2004)
• John Henson Project (Spike TV — 2004)
• On Air Dare (Nickelodeon — 2003-2004)
• Drake & Josh (Nickelodeon — 2002-2004)
• TV Land Kitschen (TV Land — 2002, 2004)
• Dinner for 5 (IFC — 2003)
• Nick's Funniest Kid (Nickelodeon — 2003)
• Million Dollar Pyramid (Syndicated — 2003)
• Truth or Scare (Nickelodeon — 2003)
• Ren & Stimpy (Nickelodeon — 2003)
• PJ Party (Nickelodeon — 2003)
• The Wayne Brady Show (WB — 2002-2003)
• All That (Nickelodeon — 1996-2005)
• Sponge Bob (Nickelodeon — 2002)
• Biz Unusual (CNN — 2002)
• Who's Line Is It Anyway? (ABC — 2000-2001)
• Amanda (Nickelodeon — 1999-2001)
• Snick House (Nickelodeon — 2000)

Theatrical

• Give A Mouse A Cookie (Lewis Family Playhouse — 2009)
• 42nd Street (Downey Civic Light Opera Association — 2009)
• Go Dog Go! (Lewis Family Playhouse — 2007)
• Oklahoma (Downey Civic Light Opera Association — 2007)
• Charlotte Life or Theater (The MET Theater — 2007)
• Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd (2007)
• Seussical: the Musical (2006)
• Annie (La Mirada Playhouse — 2004)
• Always...Patsy Cline (El Rey Theater & Hermosa Beach Playhouse — 2003)
• Fame (National Tour — 2003)
• The King and I (National Tour — 2002)
• Carousel (Equity Regional — 2001)
• Tommy (National Tour — 2000)
• A Chorus Line (National & International Tour — 1995, 1998, 2000)
• Evita (National Tour — 1995, 2000)

Consultations & Seminars

• Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Burbank
• CBS Television, Studios 36, 46, 56, H
• SMCHIE Studio Design & Installation, Los Angeles
• Downey Theatre
• Fox West Coast Theatre
• Long Beach Center Theatre
• Long Beach Community Playhouse
• Palos Verdes Neighborhood Church

Miscellaneous

• Maytag (Commercial — 2003)
• Wild Thornberrys (Nickelodeon Promos — 2002)
• No Secrets (Music Video — 2002)
• Wrigley's Gum Commercial (2002)