Patricia Zipprodt
Patricia Zipprodt | |
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| Born | February 24, 1925 Chicago, Illinois , US |
| Died | July 17, 1999 (aged 74) Greenwich Village, New York, US |
| Alma mater | Bradford Junior College Wellesley College Fashion Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | costume designer |
| Spouse | Colonel O'Brien |
Patricia Zipprodt (February 24, 1925 – July 17, 1999) was an American
Biography
Born in
Her first Broadway credit was The Potting Shed, a play by Graham Greene, in 1957. She went on to design more than 50 productions over the next 43 years. In 1992, she was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. She also designed for the New York City Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the Houston Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the New York City Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. She designed costumes and masks for the long-running off-Broadway production of the Jean Genet play The Blacks in the early 1960s.
Zipprodt's
In 1946, following her graduation from Wellesley, Zipprodt had returned to Chicago, where she met Lieut. Col. Robert O'Brien Jr. He proposed, but she declined because she wanted to pursue a career. More than forty years later, the retired and widowed O'Brien saw her biography in Playbill and contacted her via Brandeis University, where she was an artist in residence.[1]
In 1983, Zipprodt received a Tony Award nomination for her work on Alice in Wonderland, produced by The Mirror Theater Ltd’s Sabra Jones. Zipprodt’s designs were exact recreations of the John Tenniel drawings for the original publication of the book Alice in Wonderland.[2]
Death
Colonel O'Brien and Zipprodt were married on June 5, 1993, and remained married until his death in 1998. Zipprodt died of cancer on July 17, 1999, at her home in Greenwich Village. She was 74 years old.[1]
Productions
- Miss Lonelyhearts (1957)
- Sunday in New York (1961)
- She Loves Me (1963)
- Fiddler on the Roof (1964)
- Anya (1965)
- Cabaret (1966)
- The Little Foxes (1967)
- Plaza Suite (1968)
- Zorba (1968)
- 1776 (1969)
- Georgy (1970)
- Pippin (1972)
- Mack & Mabel(1974)
- Chicago (1975)
- The Leaves Are Fading (ballet by Antony Tudor, ABT, 1975)
- Poor Murderer (1976)
- King of Hearts (1978)
- Fools (1981)
- Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983)
- Alice in Wonderland(1983)
- Sweet Charity (1986)
- Into the Woods (1987)
- Jerome Robbins' Broadway (1989)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1990)
- Shogun: The Musical(1990)
- The Crucible (1991)
- My Favorite Year (1992)
- My Fair Lady (1993)
Awards and nominations
- 1997 Theatre Development Fund's Irene Sharaff Award for Lifetime Achievement in Costume Design (winner)
- 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design (My Fair Lady, nominee)
- 1991 Induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame[3]
- 1991 Tony Award for Best Costume Design (Shogun, nominee)
- 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costumes (Shogun, winner)
- 1986 Tony Award for Best Costume Design (Sweet Charity, winner)
- 1984 Tony Award for Best Costume Design (Sunday in the Park with George, nominee)
- 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design (Sunday in the Park with George, nominee)
- 1983 Tony Award for Best Costume Design (Alice in Wonderland, nominee)
- 1983 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design (Alice in Wonderland, nominee)
- 1981 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design (Fools, nominee)
- 1979 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design (King of Hearts, winner)
- 1976 Tony Award for Best Costume Design (Chicago, nominee)
- 1975 Tony Award for Best Costume Design (Mack & Mabel, nominee)
- 1973 Tony Award for Best Costume Design (Pippin, nominee)
- 1973 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design (Pippin, winner)
- 1971 Wellesley's Alumnae Achievement Award (winner)
- 1969 Tony Award for Best Costume Design (Zorba, nominee)
- 1969 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design (1776, winner)
- 1969 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design (Zorba, winner)
- 1967 Tony Award for Best Costume Design (Cabaret, winner)
- 1965 Tony Award for Best Costume Design (Fiddler on the Roof, winner)
Notes
- ^ a b Van Gelder, Lawrence.Patricia Zipprodt, 74, Costume Designer" New York Times, July 19, 1999
- ^ Rich, Frank. "STAGE: TENNIEL'S 'ALICE' AT THE VIRGINIA THEATER." The New York Times, December 23, 1982., retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ^ "On Stage, and Off". New York Times. December 6, 1991.
References
- Liz Ruark (14 July 2000). "Person of the Week: Patricia Zipprodt '46". Wellesley College. Archived from the original on 4 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- Jane Hogan (1 October 1999). "In Memoriam: Patricia Zipprodt". Live Design. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
External links
- Patricia Zipprodt at the Internet Broadway Database
- Patricia Zipprodt at IMDb
- Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs, 1925-1999, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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