William Ivey Long '69, L.H.D. '04

William Ivey Long '69, L.H.D. '04 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) and 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 Cafe; 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; Assasins (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; Siegfried and Roy at the Mirage Hotel; the Pointer Sisters at Caesar's Palace, Paul Taylor; Twyla Tharp; Peter Martins and David Parsons.

Long has also designed costumes for such films as The Producers: The Movie Musical, Curtain Call; The Cutting Edge and Life With Mickey.

He also has a new exhibition at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, N.C., featuring his costumes and sketches. The show, Between Taste and Travesty: Costume Designs by William Ivey Long, is believed to be the first museum exhibition devoted entirely to costume design and it is definitely the first showcasing Long's designs.

A North Carolina native, Long holds a B.A. from the College of William and Mary, studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and holds an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama as well as three honorary degrees. Mr. Long has 11 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. -- Source: Williamiveylong.com

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