Toni-Leslie James is an American costume designer for stage, television and film. James was awarded The Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award and the 2009 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design. She received a BFA in costume design from The

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for 12 years, and is currently an assistant professor of design and

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resident costume designer for the

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. Her Broadway costume design credits include the costume designs for '' Bernhardt/Hamlet'' (2019 Drama Desk Award, 2018 Tony Award nomination), ''

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'' (2017 Drama Desk nomination), the 2017 revival of August Wilson's '' Jitney'' (2017 Tony Award nomination, 2017 Drama Desk nomination), ''

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'' (Hewes Design Award nomination), '' The Scottsboro Boys'' (Hewes Design Award nomination), '' Finian's Rainbow'', '' Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''One Mo’ Time'', '' The Wild Party'' (FANY Award), ''

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'' (FANY nomination), ''

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'', '' The Tempest'' (Drama Desk nomination), '' Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'' (Hewes Design Award, Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk nomination). Off Broadway and

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she has designed various productions, including for the City Center

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series,

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, The Public Theatre, The Vineyard Theatre, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, Ballet Hispanico, and internationally at the Royal Court and Chitchester theaters in England, The Citadel Theatre in Canada, and The Greek Festival in Athens, Greece. Her television credits include ''Whoopi'' for NBC, ''As the World Turns'' for CBS, ''The Huey P. Newton Story'' directed by Spike Lee, five specials for WNET/13 ''Great Performances'' series and the feature film ''A Tale of Two Pizzas'' directed by Vincent Sassone.

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External links

*http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Toni-Leslie&last=James&middle=f *http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=24978 *https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0416992/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20120313090956/http://americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/toni_leslie_james/ *http://library.osu.edu/find/collections/theatre-research-institute/design-collections/toni-leslie-james-papers/ {{DEFAULTSORT:James, Toni-Leslie American costume designers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)