Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet; Come From Away; August Wilson’s Jitney; Amazing Grace; Lucky Guy; The Scottsboro Boys; Finian’s Rainbow; Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; King Hedley II; One Mo’ Time; The Wild Party; Marie Christine; Footloose; The Tempest; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Angels in America: Millennium Approaches & Perestroika; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; and Jelly’s Last Jam. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Soho Rep, Lincoln Center Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, and the Roundabout Theatre, among others. Regional: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, the Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Seattle Rep, and internationally on the West End in the UK. She has 38 costume design nominations and awards for her contributions to various theatrical productions, including two Tony Award nominations, five Drama Desk nominations, two Hewes Design Awards, the Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award for Costume Design Excellence, and an Obie Award for Sustained Costume Design Excellence.
Toni-Leslie James, Paradise Square
Toni-Leslie James, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Toni-Leslie James, Bernhardt/Hamlet
Toni-Leslie James, Bernhardt/Hamlet
Toni-Leslie James, Come From Away
Toni-Leslie James, Jitney
Toni-Leslie James, August Wilson's Jitney
Toni-Leslie James, First Daughter Suite
Toni-Leslie JamesA Civil War Christmas
Toni-Leslie JamesSustained excellence of costume design
Toni-Leslie JamesSustained excellence of costume design
Toni-Leslie James, Wig Out!
Toni-Leslie James3 Mo' Divas
Toni-Leslie James, The Tempest
Toni-Leslie James, Jelly's Last Jam
Toni-Leslie James, Jelly's Last Jam
Toni-Leslie James , Jelly's Last Jam
Toni-Leslie James has been nominated for various awards for her outstanding costume designs in Broadway productions. These nominations include Best Costume Design of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "Paradise Square," Outstanding Costume Design for a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf" and "Bernhardt/Hamlet," Best Costume Design of a Play at the Tony Awards for "Bernhardt/Hamlet," Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards for "Come From Away," and Outstanding Costume Design for a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Jitney." Additionally, she received nominations for Outstanding Costume Design at The Lortels for "First Daughter Suite," "A Civil War Christmas," and "Wig Out!," as well as for Sustained Excellence of Costume Design at the Obie Awards. Her nominations also include Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production at the Helen Hayes Awards for "3 Mo' Divas," and Costume Design at The Hewes Awards for "Jelly's Last Jam."
Toni-Leslie James has won several awards for her costume design work, including Outstanding Costume Design for a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Bernhardt/Hamlet," Design at the Obie Awards for sustained excellence in costume design, and another Design award at the Obie Awards for sustained excellence in costume design. She also won the Costume Design award at The Hewes Awards for "Jelly's Last Jam."
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