Paul Tazewell
Paul Tazewell | |
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Paul Tazewell is an American
Academy Award
.
Tazewell made his Broadway debut as a costume designer with MJ (2022).
He is also the first African American male costume designer to be nominated for the
Primetime Emmy Award for his work on The Wiz Live!
(2016).
Early life and education
Born in
Career
Tazewell has designed costumes for over a dozen
A Streetcar Named Desire. Plays on Broadway have included Lombardi, The Miracle Worker (Revival), Magic/Bird and the Tony Award-winning revival of A Raisin in the Sun. His off-Broadway work as a costume designer includes Hamilton, Elaine Stritch at Liberty (2001), Boston Marriage (2002), Ruined, One Flea Spare, Flesh and Blood, and Harlem Song (Apollo Theater
).
In regional theatre he has designed costumes for, among many,
the Metropolitan Opera
.
Credits
Film
- Harriet (2019)
- West Side Story, 20th Century Studios (2021)
- Wicked, Universal Pictures (2024)
- Wicked: Part Two, Universal Pictures (2025)
Television
- The Wiz Live!, NBC (2015)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, HBO (2017)
- Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, NBC (2018)
Theatre
- Before It Hits Home (1992)
- Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk(1996)
- On the Town (1998)
- Fascinating Rhythm (1999)
- Boston Marriage (2002)
- Elaine Stritch At Liberty(2002)
- Caroline, or Change (2003)
- A Raisin in the Sun (2004)
- The Color Purple (2005)
- In the Heights (2008)
- Guys and Dolls (2009)
- Memphis (2009)
- Fetch Clay, Make Man (2010)
- Lombardi (2010)
- The Miracle Worker (2010)
- Jesus Christ Superstar (2012)
- A Streetcar Named Desire(2012)
- Magic/Bird (2012)
- Side Show (2014)
- Hamilton (2015)
- Doctor Zhivago (2015)
- Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (2018)
- Escape to Margaritaville (2018)
- Ain't Too Proud (2019)
- MJ(2022)
- Mr. Saturday Night (2022)
- Suffs(2024)
Awards and nominations
He is recipient of six total
Princess Grace Foundation to artists of excellence in various disciplines.[2]
| Year | Association | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| 1996 | Tony Award |
Best Costume Design | Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Best Costume Design of a Musical |
The Color Purple | Nominated | ||
| 2008 | In the Heights | Nominated | |||
| 2010 | Memphis | Nominated | |||
| 2012 | Best Costume Design of a Play |
A Streetcar Named Desire | Nominated | ||
| 2016 | Best Costume Design of a Musical |
Hamilton | Won | ||
| 2019 | Ain't Too Proud | Nominated | |||
| 2022 | MJ |
Nominated | |||
| 2021 | Academy Award |
Best Costume Design | West Side Story | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Critics' Choice Movie Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated | ||
| 2016 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Program | The Wiz Live! | Won | |
| 2018 | Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert! |
Nominated |
References
- ^ Summary of article from The Washington Post, January 18, 1997, encyclopedia.com
- ^ a b Warner, Lindsay."Freelance costume designer Paul Tazewell speaks" collegian.kenyon.edu, January 31, 2002
- ^ Tazewell official site paultazewell.net
- ^ Sloss, Eric."Carnegie Mellon Costume Design Professor Earns 2006 Tony Award Nomination", cmu.edu, June 8, 2006
- ^ "Designer Paul Tazewell brings Broadway Magic to 'The Wiz Live!'". NBC News. December 2015. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
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