He gave show-stopping appearances on specials like "A Very Rosie Christmas" (ABC), The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and 7 different appearances on The Rosie O'Donnell Show becoming the Bette Midler to her Johnny Carson. In concert, Billy has opened for Aretha Franklin, Rosie O'Donnell and Mint Condition. He has taken his own Christmas Show to Town Hall, performed with The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, John McDaniel and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, The Buffalo Philharmonic, Peter Nero and The Philly Pops, and was a soloist for President Bill Clinton at The White House. His Off-Broadway and Regional credits include both musical and dramatic turns in: Romance In Hard Times, The Merchant of Venice, House of Lear and Radiant Baby (The New York Shakespeare Festival), Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World, Adam Guettel's Myths & Hymns, Angels in America (Actors Theatre Of Louisville), Going Native (The Long Wharf), Top Dog Underdog (City Theater), Jesus Christ Superstar, Antigone, A Chorus Line and Chicago. Billy is also a graduate of The Professional Program In Screenwriting at UCLA and is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School Of Drama, where he has directed productions of Company and Letter's From ‘Nam. Billy has also directed a critically acclaimed recreation of The Wiz and conceived a musical revue entitled Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Music Of Stevie Wonder, which starred Chaka Khan, Peabo Bryson and Melissa Manchester and ran at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas in the spring of 2002. Billy was recently named "Pittsburgh's Performer of the Year 2003-2004" by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
