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WILLIAM IVEY LONG
is a five
time Tony Award winning costume designer who
currently has four shows running on Broadway: CURTAINS; GREY
GARDENS (Tony Award); John Water’s HAIRSPRAY (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics
Circle Awards); CHICAGO.
Other credits
include THE PRODUCERS (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards);
THE BOY FROM OZ; TWENTIETH CENTURY; SWEET CHARITY; A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE;
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES; THE FROGS; LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS; Susan Stroman’s
DOUBLE FEATURE at the New York City Ballet; ; CABARET; NEVER GONNA DANCE;
CONTACT (Hewes Award); THOU SHALT NOT;
BIG; THE MUSIC MAN; ANNIE GET YOUR
GUN; THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER; SWING; THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP; STEEL PIER;
1776; SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ; CRAZY FOR YOU (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards);
GUYS AND DOLLS (Drama Desk Award); Madison Square Garden’s annual A
CHRISTMAS CAROL; SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION; ASSASSINS (Obie Award); LEND ME
A TENOR (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); NINE (Tony, Drama Desk,
Maharam Awards); Robert Wilson’s HAMLETMACHINE; Leonard Bernstein’s A QUIET
PLACE and TROUBLE IN TAHITI; Vienna State Opera, LaScala, Houston
Grand Opera, and the Kennedy Center; THE LOST COLONY; Mick Jagger for the
Rolling Stones’ STEEL WHEELS tour; SIEGFRIED AND ROY at the Mirage Hotel;
The Pointer Sisters at Caesar’s Palace, Paul Taylor; Twyla Tharp; Peter
Martins; David Parsons.
Mr. Long has also
designed costumes for such films as THE PRODUCERS: The Movie Musical,
CURTAIN CALL (Starring Maggie Smith and Michael Caine); THE CUTTING EDGE;
and LIFE WITH
MICKEY
A North Carolina native, Mr. Long holds a BA from The
College of William and Mary, studied at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Mr. Long has
eleven Tony Award nominations for his work. He has
also received The North Carolina Award for Fine Arts (November 2004), The
Order of the Long Leaf Pine (2001), the Lifetime Achievement Award,
Carolina Playmakers, U.N.C., Chapel Hill (1994), and the Morrison Award,
Roanoke Island Historical Association.
In January 2006, he was
inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
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