Paul Tazewell

Paul Tazewell has been designing costumes for theater, film and television, dance, and opera for more than 25 years. He received a Tony Award for best costume design for Hamilton, an Emmy Award for outstanding costume design for The Wiz Live!, and was nominated for an Academy Award for best costume design for the film West Side Story. Mr. Tazewell has also received Tony Award nominations for Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk, The Color Purple, In the Heights, Memphis, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Suffs. He designed costumes for PNB’s productions of Donald Byrd’s Seven Deadly Sins and Kent Stowell’s Swan Lake and most recently designed costumes for the film Wicked.