Paul Tazewell

Known for Costume & Make-UpAkron, Ohio, USA

Paul Tazewell is an American costume designer for the theatre, dance, and opera and television. After training at New York University Tisch School of the Arts he started his career on Broadway. He went on to win a Tony Award and a Emmy Award as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. Tazewell made his Broadway debut as a costume designer with Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk in 1996. He went on to receive the Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2016). His other Tony-nominated works include The Color Purple (2006), In the Heights (2008), Memphis (2010), A Streetcar Named Desire (2012), Ain't Too Proud (2019), MJ (2022), and Suffs (2024). He is also the first African American male costume designer to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, for his work on Steven Spielberg's 2021 film version of West Side Story. He received a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on The Wiz Live! (2016). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Tazewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Elaine Stritch at Liberty

Disclosure Day

Memphis

Making Wicked

Hamilton

Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked

Harriet

Wicked

West Side Story

Wicked: For Good

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Oscars

Project Runway

Reclaim the Flag

Today with Jenna & Sheinelle

Mr. Saturday Night

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