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About Barry Arnold
An accomplished Designer, Producer, Writer, Director, and Theming Consultant, Barry Arnold has been a member of the creative teams for numerous important international projects. A career highlight for the native New Yorker was the revitalization of the Times Square New Year's Eve Celebrations, re-conceiving the event in 1995, as well as assisting in the planning of New York City's Millennium Celebrations. On a more somber note, Barry was associate producer for New York City's Official 9/11 Commemorations and designer of the World Trade Center site ceremonies.
He served as a creative consultant for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. For the French Ministry of Art, Mr. Arnold consulted on the design for the first Festival D'Automne. With artist Red Grooms, he collaborated on the film Hippodrome Hardware, and he has created special presentations for such major corporations as Digital, Microsoft, Nissan, Motorola, and Coca Cola, as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Internationally, Barry has provided Design, Theming and Production services for many of the world's leading Five-Star Hotels, Resorts, Casinos, Luxury Cruise Ships, Office Buildings, Shopping Centers, Theme Parks, and Performing Arts Facilities. Among his distinguished architectural clientele have been Shangri-La Hotels International, the Adlon Hotel Berlin, Kempinski Hotels, Righa Royal Hotels, the Dusit Hotel Group, Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, and Royal Caribbean.
In Asia, Barry's design for the Thailand Pavilion at the Asian Trade Fair was awarded first prize. He created the musical A Star in the Sky, a benefit for the King and Queen of Thailand's Queen's Charity, which opened Bangkok's twenty-five hundred seat Cultural Center, and was broadcast throughout Thailand. In the Caribbean, Barry co-created highly successful productions in Puerto Rico, Cancun, Cozumel, and St. Thomas. Among his Middle Eastern projects are consultancies for Kasr Al Hokm, the capital of Saudi Arabia, his Majesty the Saudi King's palaces in Riyadh and Jeddah, as well as Lighting Design for the Kempinski Marsa Malaz Hotel at The Pearl, Qatar.
His work for the Casino Industry has included creative consultancy, lighting design, and theming for such respected clients as Harrah's, Sands, Caesars Palace, Stations Casinos, The Trump Organization, Galaxy Starworld Macau, Galaxy Mega Resort Cotai, and multiple other notable resort & casino projects.
In the world of themed entertainment, Mr. Arnold executive produced and designed Phuket FantaSea, one of Asia's leading theme parks, as well as writing the opening production, the longest running show in Asia, starring a cast of 100 performers and acrobats, plus 25 performing elephants. He provided designs and creative consultancy for Singapore's Asia Village on Sentosa Island, conceived and designed the X-Trak Entertainment Centers in Southeast Asia, created designs for Phoebus Amphitheater in Bangkok, the world's largest disco with an attendance of 10,000 people nightly, and the innovative Pattaya Palladium, as well as Phuket Island's Dino Park, featuring life size replicas of dinosaurs in a themed jungle environment under a towering volcano, which to the delight of visitors erupts every half hour.
When Barry was asked by Digital Corporation to create a promotion for Alta Vista, he produced an international blimp campaign, which proved popular with live and television audiences both in the United States and Europe, telecast globally as a special on E! - Entertainment Television. In Hollywood, for Superman producer Ilya Salkind and publicist Dale Olson, Barry conceived and produced the largest live film promotion of all time, placing a fleet of airplanes drawing mile high hearts above Los Angeles on Valentine's Day, which received widespread media coverage.
Barry Arnold's Lighting Designs have graced many Broadway, Off-Broadway and Touring shows, among them the original productions of Godspell, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat, Bubbling Brown Sugar, One Mo' Time, Diversions and Delights, Elvis the Legend Lives, and To Be Young Gifted and Black, as well as significant Television and Regional Theater productions worldwide.
At the New York Shakespeare Festival, Barry co-authored the musical Play on the Times. He assisted legendary director Joshua Logan on the Broadway musical Look to the Lilies starring Shirley Booth, and worked closely with producer Harry Rigby on the Tony Award winning Broadway revival of No, No, Nanette. Off-Broadway, he wrote, produced, and directed the musical Monday March Eleven, and authored the acclaimed New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco productions of the musical Roller Derby.
Mr. Arnold founded his award winning Lighting Design and Theming firm, BAA, in 1979. He currently resides in Marina del Rey, California, while travelling extensively for both national and international projects.
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