Costume Designer

2011 Nominees for Outstanding Costume Designer

2011 eligibility for nomination: Any costume designer, regardless of union status, who designed the costumes for a 2010-2011 Season production taking place in Washington State.

Harmony J.K. Arnold

O Lovely Glowworm, or Scenes of Great Beauty, New Century Theatre Company

From the nomination panel: “Every piece only added to this fantastical world just to the left of reality.”

JULIA EVANOVICH – RECIPIENT

*Members’ Voice Nominee
Into the Woods, Seattle Musical Theatre; The Glass Menagerie and Vestal Virgins, Theater Schmeater; The Tempest, GreenStage; 3 Screams, Man Alone Productions

From the nomination panel: “Julia’s costumes [in Vestal Virgins] had to keep us in the present while allowing the older rocker women to live in both past and present.  Very nice fun work!”

Deane Middleton

Sense and Sensibility, Book-It Repertory Theatre; The Merry Wives of Windsor, Seattle Shakespeare Company; Anne of Green Gables, Village Theatre

From the nomination panel: “Hats fit for a pastry display, canary colors and ingenious sculpting devices belying the dainty budget… the costumes made the show [The Merry Wives of Windsor].”

Pete Rush

Hamlet, Seattle Shakespeare Company; Sextet, Washington Ensemble Theatre; The Happy Ones, Seattle Public Theater

From the nomination panel: “Every piece fit perfectly into this world out of time [Hamlet] and complimented not only each actor but the story.”

Janessa Jayne Styck

*People’s Choice Nominee

Macbeth, GreenStage; Much Ado About Nothing, SecondStory Repertory; The Comedy of Errors, Wooden O

From the nomination panel: “Fantastic half-period, half-steampunk costumes. Supported the weirdness of the show, while being awesome on their own. My favorite: the witches’s costumes, which transitioned from ragged, semi-Victorian dresses with corsets and long trains into cloaks and hoods and witchy fabric.” [Macbeth]

Elizabeth Caitlin Ward

A Doctor In Spite of Himself, Intiman Theatre

From the nomination panel: “Imaginative and eye popping, the costumes almost became another character.”