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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, Rihga 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
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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