Biography

Has been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Costume Designer 13 times, but has yet to win. Her nominations are: in 1965, "Tartuffe;" in 1968, "More Statley Mansions;" in 1971, "Hay Fever" and "Les Blancs;" in 1982, "Medea;" in 1984, "Heartbreak House;" in 1989, "Our Town;" in 1992, "Two Shakespearean Actors;" in 1993, "The Sisters Rosensweig;" in 1994, "Passion;" also in 1964, "She Loves Me,: shared with her former assistant David Charles; in 1995, "The Heiress;" in 1996, "A Delicate Balance;" and in 2002, "Morning's at Seven."

She was nominated for a 2003 Joseph Jefferson Award for Costume Design for "The Beard of Avon", at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

She was nominated for a 2004 Joseph Jefferson Award for Costume Design for "The Moliere Comedies", at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

She was awarded the 1994 Drama-Logue Award for Costume Design for "The Sisters Rosensweig" in presented by the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle (University of California) Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

She was awarded the 1996 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Costume Design in the play, "The Heiress" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.