2009 Tony Award Nominees: 'Best Costume Design Of A Play'
By: Charlie Piane May. 07, 2009
Nominations in 27 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards were announced today by Tony Award Winners Cynthia Nixon and Lin-Manuel Miranda from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. To view the complete list of nominees, click here.
The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.
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BroadwayWorld Presents The 2009 Tony Award Nominees:
'Best Costume Design of a Play'
Dale Ferguson (Exit the King)
Broadway debut. Graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney). Recently designed A Midsummer Nights Dream for Houston Grand Opera and the English tour of Sydney Theatre Company and Out of Joint production of The Convict Opera. Other Opera: Opera Australia/Welsh National Opera, The Marriage of Figaro and Ariadne auf Naxos. Musicals: The 25th Annual..., Titanic: the Musical, Summer Rain and The Rocky Horror Show (Sydney). Melbourne Theatre Company: the upcoming August: Osage County, The Seagull, A Cheery Soul, Molly Sweeney, Dealers Choice and The History Boys. Company B: Belvoir, Antigone, Peribanez, The Dreamers, The Judas Kiss and The Chairs. TV: for the Nine Network Australia, Temptation and Logie Awards 2008.
Jane Greenwood (Waiting for Godot)
More than 100 Broadway/Off-Broadway credits including Garden of Earthly Delights, Thurgood, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Receptionist, Trumpery, Heartbreak House, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, On Golden Pond, A Delicate Balance, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Master Class, Passion, The Heiress, The Sisters Rosensweig, Plenty, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Burton's Hamlet, Vita and Virginia, Sylvia, The Lisbon Traviata. Metropolitan Opera: the revival of Adriana Lecouvreur (2009), Dialogue of the Carmelites, The Great Gatsby. Chicago Lyric Opera: Nabucco and Rigoletto. San Francisco Opera: La Favorita. Film: Arthur, Can't Stop the Music, Glengarry Glen Ross. Awards: Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, Theatre Hall of Fame, 14 Tony nominations. Professor, Yale School of Drama.
Recent NY theatre: Applause (Encores!); Is He Dead?; Grease; Gypsy (Encores! directed by Arthur Laurents); The Pirate Queen; The Pajama Game; The Trip to Bountiful; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Wonderful Town; Kiss Me, Kate; Golden Child; The Wild Party (Lippa); The Diary of Anne Frank; The Life; others. Recently in dance: Mark Morris' Mozart Dances (Mostly Mozart Festival) and Christopher Wheeldon's The Nightingale and The Rose (NYCB). Opera, including Iphigenie en Tauride for the Metropolitan Opera. Two Tonys, Drama Desk, Obie, Lucille Lortel and others. Upcoming: Mark Morris' Romeo and Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare for the Mark Morris Dance Group
Anthony Ward (Mary Stuart)
Broadway: Macbeth (Tony Award nomination, set design), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Tony Award nomination, set design), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Tony Award nomination, Set Design), Oklahoma! (Olivier Award and Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Set Design; Drama Desk nomination), Gypsy, Uncle Vanya (Obie Award, Best Set Design), and Twelfth Night at BAM. The Makropulos Case (Metropolitan Opera NY). In England he has worked extensively for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Royal Ballet, The Almeida Theatre, and the Donmar Warehouse. West End credits include Oliver! and My Fair Lady. He won the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design in 1996.
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