William Ivey Long

Personal Information
William Ivey Long’s shows on Broadway include Twentieth Century starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche; Little Shop of Horrors; The Boy from Oz starring Hugh Jackman; John Waters' Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), New York, First National Tour, Toronto; The Producers, New York, First and Second National Tours, Australia; Chicago, New York, National Tours, Montreal, London, Melbourne, Vienna, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Moscow. Other credits include Cabaret, New York, Australia; Never Gonna Dance; Contact, New York (Hewes Award), London, National Tour, Tokyo; Thou Shalt Not; 45 Seconds from Broadway; 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, New York, National Tour, London, Las Vegas; Crazy for You, New York (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards), London, Toronto (Dora Award), and Tokyo; 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; Paul Taylor; Twyla Tharp; Peter Martins; David Parsons; Susan Stroman.
 
External Links: Primary Stages Oral History Project
Credits

Designer
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 The Portuguese Kid New York City Center/ Stage I 10/24/2017 Costume Designer
2 Shows for Days Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 06/29/2015 Costume Designer
3 The Belle of Amherst Westside Theatre/ Upstairs 10/19/2014 Costume Designer
4 Bunty Berman Presents... Theatre Row / Theatre Three (previously Acorn Theater) 05/09/2013 Costume Designer
5 The Best Is Yet To Come: The Music of Cy Coleman 59E59 Theaters/ Theater A 05/25/2011 Costume Designer
6 Lucky Guy Little Shubert Theatre 05/19/2011 Costume Designer
7 The School For Lies East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 05/01/2011 Costume Designer
8 Happiness Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 03/30/2009 Costume Designer
9 The New Century Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 04/14/2008 Costume Designer
10 Regrets Only New York City Center/ Stage I 11/19/2006 Costume Designer
11 Grey Gardens Playwrights Horizons 03/07/2006 Costume Designer
12 Valhalla New York Theatre Workshop 02/05/2004 Costume Designer
13 Rose's Dilemma New York City Center/ Stage I 12/18/2003 Costume Designer
14 A Bad Friend Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 06/09/2003 Costume Designer
15 The Syringa Tree Playhouse 91 09/14/2000 Costume Designer
16 Godspell York Theatre at St. Peter's 08/02/2000 Costume Designer
17 Contact Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 10/07/1999 Costume Designer
18 La Terrasse New York City Center/ Stage II 06/08/1999 Costume Designer
19 The Mystery of Irma Vep Westside Theatre/ Downstairs 10/01/1998 Costume Designer
20 Tovah: Out of Her Mind Playhouse 91 04/13/1996 Costume Designer
21 Splendora American Place Theatre 11/01/1995 Costume Designer
22 The Food Chain Westside Theatre/ Upstairs 08/07/1995 Costume Designer
23 Assassins Playwrights Horizons 12/18/1990 Costume Designer
24 Six Degrees of Separation Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 06/14/1990 Costume Designer
25 Eleemosynary New York City Center/ Stage II 04/25/1989 Costume Designer
26 Italian American Reconciliation New York City Center/ Stage II 10/18/1988 Costume Designer
27 Wenceslas Square Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 03/02/1988 Costume Designer
28 Laughing Wild Playwrights Horizons 11/11/1987 Costume Designer
29 Principia Scriptoriae New York City Center/ Stage I 04/10/1986 Costume Designer
30 Hamlet Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 03/09/1986 Costume Designer
31 The Marriage of Bette and Boo Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 05/16/1985 Costume Designer
32 After the Fall Playhouse 91 10/04/1984 Costume Designer
33 Hey, Ma...Kaye Ballard Promenade Theatre 02/27/1984 Costume Designer
34 The Lady and the Clarinet Lucille Lortel Theatre 11/28/1983 Costume Designer
35 American Passion Joyce Theater 07/10/1983 Costume Designer
36 Poor Little Lambs Parish Hall at the Church of Heavenly Rest 03/14/1982 Costume Designer
37 Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You / The Actor's Nightmare Westside Theatre/ Downstairs 02/24/1982 Costume Designer
38 Twelve Dreams Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 12/22/1981 Costume Designer
39 Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You / The Actor's Nightmare Playwrights Horizons 10/16/1981 Costume Designer
40 Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria Stage 73 06/02/1981 Costume Designer
41 True West Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 12/23/1980 Costume Designer
42 The Impossible H.L. Mencken American Place Theatre 10/19/1980 Costume Designer
43 Passione Playwrights Horizons 05/16/1980 Costume Designer
44 Mass Appeal Stage 73 04/22/1980 Costume Designer
45 The Vienna Notes Playwrights Horizons 01/18/1979 Costume Designer
46 Conjuring an Event American Place Theatre 03/10/1978 Costume Designer
47 Two Small Bodies Playwrights Horizons 12/01/1977 Costume Designer
Awards
Award Production Function
1 WON 2017 Lucille Lortel Award, Lifetime Achievement Award    
2 NOMINATED 2012 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Costume Design The School For Lies Costume Designer
3 NOMINATED 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Costume Design Lucky Guy Costume Designer
4 NOMINATED 2012 Hewes Design Award, Costume Design Lucky Guy Costume Designer
5 WON 2011 Hewes Design Award, Costume Design The School For Lies Costume Designer
6 NOMINATED 2008 Hewes Design Award, Costume Design The New Century Costume Designer
7 NOMINATED 2007 Hewes Design Award, Costume Design Regrets Only Costume Designer
8 NOMINATED 2006 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Costume Design Grey Gardens Costume Designer
9 NOMINATED 2006 Hewes Design Award, Costume Design Grey Gardens Costume Designer
10 NOMINATED 2006 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Costume Design Grey Gardens Costume Designer
11 NOMINATED 2004 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Costume Design Valhalla Costume Designer
Notes
2017 Lucille Lortel Awards
-Lifetime Achievement Award