TONI-LESLIE JAMES COSTUME DESIGNER Ben Izzo, Agent A3 Artists Agency 350 Fifth Ave, 38th Floor, New York, NY 10118 Phone: (646) 486-4600 Fax: (646) 486-0100
BROADWAY & WEST END
FOR COLORED GIRLS… Theatre TBA (S22) Director: Camille A. Brown PARADISE SQUARE Theatre TBA (S22) Director: Moises Kaufman BIRTHDAY CANDLES American Airlines Theatre (S 22) Director: Vivian Benesch THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN Golden Theatre (F 21) Director: Steve H. Broadnax III FLYING OVER SUNSET Vivian Beaumont Theatre (F 21) Director: James Lapine COME FROM AWAY Phoenix Theater, London West End Director: Christopher Ashley BERNHARDT/HAMLET American Airlines Theatre Director: M. von Stuelpnagel COME FROM AWAY Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Director: Christopher Ashley JITNEY Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Director: R. Santiago-Hudson AMAZING GRACE: A NEW MUSICAL Nederlander Theatre Director: Gabriel Barre THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Garrick Theatre, London West End Director: Susan Stroman LUCKY GUY Broadhurst Theatre Director: George C. Wolfe THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Lyceum Theatre Director: Susan Stroman FINIAN'S RAINBOW St. James Theatre Director: Warren Carlyle CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCER’S LIFE Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Director: Graciela Daniele MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM Royale Theatre Director: Marion McClinton ONE MO’ TIME Longacre Theatre Director: Vernel Bagneris KING HEDLEY II Virginia Theatre Director: Marion McClinton THE WILD PARTY Virginia Theatre Director: George C. Wolfe MARIE CHRISTINE Vivian Beaumont Theatre Director: Graciela Daniele FOOTLOOSE Richard Rodgers Theatre Director: Walter Bobbie THE TEMPEST Broadhurst Theatre Director: George C. Wolfe CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD Plymouth Theatre Director: Graciela Daniele TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 Cort Theatre Director: George C. Wolfe ANGELS IN AMERICA: PERESTROIKA Walter Kerr Theatre Director: George C. Wolfe ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLINEUM APPROACHES Walter Kerr Theatre Director: George C. Wolfe JELLY’S LAST JAM Virginia Theatre Director: George C. Wolfe
FILM / TELEVISION
COME FROM AWAY Entertainment One and Radical Media Director: Christopher Ashley RASHEEDA SPEAKING WNET/13 Great Performances Director: Cynthia Nixon 3 MO' DIVAS PBS/Denver Theatre Center Director: Marion Caffey I WAS A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE Cock-Eyed Optimist Productions Director: Vincent Sassone TIGHTROPE Stonestreet Productions Director: Vincent Sassone WHOOPI: 22 EPISODES Carsey-Werner-Mandabach , NBC Director: Terry Hughes THE ISAAC MIZRAHI SHOW Pilot, NBC Universal A TALE OF TWO PIZZAS Hot Pie LLC Director: Vincent Sassone THE HUEY P. NEWTON STORY Luna Lay Films LLC, Starz Encore Director: Spike Lee MY FAVORITE BROADWAY: THE LOVE SONGS Metropolitan Entertainment / WNET/13 Director: Graciela Daniele AS THE WORLD TURNS: 650 EPISODES CBS Daytime Television, Procter & Gamble SOME ENCHANTED EVENING WNET/13 Great Performances Director: Matthew Diamond IN THE WINGS: ANGELS IN AMERICA BROADWAY WNET/13 Great Performances Director: George C. Wolfe JAMMIN’: JELLY ROLL MORTON ON BROADWAY WNET/13 Great Performances Director: George C. Wolfe THE COLORED MUSEUM WNET/13 Great Performances Director: George C. Wolf 2
OFF-BROADWAY/DANCE: SELECTED
BLUE The Apollo Theatre (F 21) Director: Phylicia Rashad THE VISITOR The Public Theater (F 21) Director: Daniel Sullivan LONG LOST Manhattan Theater Club Director: Daniel Sullivan PASSAGE Soho Rep Director: Saheem Ali WHITE NOISE The Public Theater Director: Oskar Eustis OTHELLO Public Theatre/Shakespeare in the Park Director: R. Santiago-Hudson SOMETHING TO DANCE ABOUT New York City Ballet Choreo: Warren Carlyle LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE New York Theatre Workshop Director: Rachel Chavkin FEEDING THE DRAGON Primary Stages Director: Maria Mileaf ADMISSIONS Lincoln Center Theater Director: Daniel Aukin DAPHNE’S DIVE Signature Theatre Company Director: Thomas Kail HEAD OF PASSES The Public Theater Director: Tina Landau MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN Classic Stage Company Director: Brian Kulick FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE The Public Theater Director: Kirsten Sanderson RASHEEDA SPEAKING The New Group Director: Cynthia Nixon A COMEDY OF ERRORS Shakespeare in the Park Director: Daniel Sullivan A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS New York Theater Workshop Director: Tina Landau WE ARE PROUD… Soho Rep Director: Eric Ting PIPE DREAM City Center Encores Director: Marc Bruni THE COTTON CLUB PARADE City Center Encores Director: Warren Carlyle MILK LIKE SUGAR Playwrights Horizons Director: Rebecca Taishman THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Vineyard Theatre Director: Susan Stroman FINIAN'S RAINBOW City Center Encores Director: Warren Carlyle A BOY AND HIS SOUL Vineyard Theatre Director: Tony Kelly WIG OUT Vineyard Theatre Director: Tina Landau FACE THE MUSIC City Center Encores Director: John Rando BLUE DOOR Playwrights Horizons Director: Leigh Silverman BERNARDA ALBA Lincoln Center Theater Director: Graciele Daniele DESSA ROSE Lincoln Center Theater Director: Graciele Daniele CAN CAN City Center Encores Director: Lonnie Price ELEGIES Lincoln Center Theater Director: Graciele Daniele HOUSE OF FLOWERS City Center Encores Director: Kathleen Marshall LITTLE FISH Second Stage Director: Graciela Daniele THUNDER KNOCKING AT THE DOOR Minetta Lane Theatre Director: Oskar Eustis CONNECTICUT YANKEE City Center Encores Director: Susan Shulman BABES IN ARMS City Center Encores Director: Kathleen Marshall A NEW BRAIN Lincoln Center Theater Director: Graciele Daniele MACBETH The Public Theater Director: George C. Wolfe HENRY VIII Shakespeare in the Park Director: Mary Zimmerman GOD’S HEART Lincoln Center Theater Director: Joe Mantello THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE City Center Encores Director: Susan Shulman THE TEMPEST Shakespeare in the Park Director: George C. Wolfe INSURRECTION The Public Theater Director: Robert O'Hara DANCING ON HER KNEES The Public Theater Director: Graciela Daniele HELLO AGAIN Lincoln Center Theater Director: Graciele Daniele EAST TEXAS HOT LINKS The Public Theater Director: Marion McClinton MEASURE FOR MEASURE Shakespeare in the Park Director: Michael Rudman THE BABYLON GARDENS Circle Rep Company Director: Joe Mantello THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE The Public Theater Director: George C. Wolfe WALKING THE DEAD Circle Rep Company Director: Mark Ramont SPUNK The Public Theater Director: George C. Wolfe 3
REGIONAL THEATRE & OPERA: SELECTED
MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT Steppenwolf Theatre Company (May 2019) Director: Tina Landau PARADISE SQUARE Berkeley Rep (Jan 2019) Director: Moises Kaufman DAVE: THE MUSICAL Arena Stage Director: Tina Landau THE ROYALE Cleveland Playhouse Director: Robert Berry Fleming FEEDING THE DRAGON Hartford Stage Director: Maria Mileaf COME FROM AWAY Royal Alexandria Theatre, Toronto Director: Chris Ashley AMAZING GRACE: A NEW MUSICAL Musuem of the American Bible Director: Gabriel Barre HEAD OF PASSES Mark Taper Forum (F 2017) Director: Tina Landau SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE The Guthrie Theater Director: Joe Haj BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY Cleveland Playhouse Director: Robert Berry Fleming ASTORIA Portland Stage Company Director: Chris Coleman COME FROM AWAY Royal Alexandria Theatre, Toronto, Canada Director: Chris Ashley THE PIANO LESSON Hartford Stage Director: Jade King Carroll JITNEY Cincinnati Playhouse Director Timothy Douglas COME FROM AWAY Ford's Theatre Director: Chris Ashley DISGRACED Arena Stage Director: Timothy Douglas TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Cincinnati Playhouse Director: Eric Ting COME FROM AWAY Seattle Rep Director: Chris Ashley FLY Pasadena Playhouse Director: Ricardo Khan BROWNSVILLE SONG Philadelphia Theatre Co. Director: Eric Ting COME FROM AWAY La Jolla Playhouse Director: Chris Ashley BROWNSVILLE SONG Long Wharf Theatre Director: Eric Ting HEAD OF PASSES Berkeley Rep Director: Tina Landau FAMILIAR Yale Rep Director: Rebecca Taishman BULL DURHAM Alliance Theatre Director: Kip Fagan LONDON ROCKS Busch Gardens Williamsburg Director: Sam Buntrock HEAD OF PASSES Steppenwolf Theatre Company Director: Tina Landau THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Young Vic Theatre, London Director: Susan Stroman ENTWINED Busch Gardens Williamsburgh Director: Matt West FLY Cincinnati Playhouse Director: Ricardo Khan GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS La Jolla Playhouse Director: Chris Ashley AMAZING GRACE: A NEW MUSICAL Goodspeed Opera House Director: Gabriel Barre THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS American Conservatory Theatre Director: Susan Stroman THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Old Globe Theatre Director: Susan Stroman GOOD GOODS Yale Rep Director: Tina Landau A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL Round House Theatre Director: Timothy Douglas MACBETH 1969 Long Wharf Theatre Director: Eric Ting MILK LIKE SUGAR La Jolla Playhouse Director: Rebecca Taishman A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL Cleveland Playhouse Director: Timothy Douglas THE OLD MASTERS Long Wharf Theatre Director: Michael Rudman SAMMY & ME Alliance Theatre Director: Wendy Dann WE ARE HERE New York Stage & Film Director: Sheryl Kaller BLACK PEARL SINGS Ford's Theatre Director: Jennifer Nelson BELL, BOOK & CANDLE Bay Street Theatre Director: Jack Hofsiss A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS Long Wharf Theatre Director: Tina Landau THE BLUEST EYE Hartford Stage Director: Eric Ting AMISTAD Lyric Opera of Chicago Director: George C. Wolfe THE OUTCAST Houston Grand Opera Director: George Faison
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AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
HEWES DESIGN NOMINATION For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide… 2020 AUDELCO AWARD For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide… 2020 ANTONYO AWARD For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide… 2020 DRAMA DESK NOMINATION For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide… 2020 LUCILLE LORTEL AWARD For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide… 2020 THEATRE BAY AREA AWARD Paradise Square 2019 TONY AWARD NOMINATION Bernhardt/Hamlet 2019 DRAMA DESK AWARD Bernhardt/Hamlet 2019 USITT AWARD Distinguished Achievement Award in Education 2019 AUDELCO NOMINATION Othello 2018 LUCILLE LORTEL NOMINATION Light Shining in Buckinghamshire 2018 HEWES DESIGN AWARD Come From Away 2017 HONORARY DOCTORATE Doctorate of Fine Arts, Sewanee, The University of the South 2018 N.A.A.C.P. IMAGE AWARD Fly 2017 TONY AWARD NOMINATION Jitney 2017 DRAMA DESK NOMINATION Come From Away 2017 DRAMA DESK NOMINATION Jitney 2017 LILLY AWARD Contribution to Women in Design in American Theatre 2017 HEWES DESIGN NOMINATION Amazing Grace: A New Musical 2016 LORTEL AWARD NOMINATION First Daughter Suite 2016 SUZI BASS AWARD NOMINATION ATLANTA Bull Durham 2015 LORTEL AWARD NOMINATION A Civil War Christmas 2013 LORTEL AWARD NOMINATION Milk Like Sugar 2012 NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE FESTIVAL Outstanding Costume Designer of the Year 2011 HEWES DESIGN NOMINATION The Scottsboro Boys 2010 AUDELCO AWARD NOMINATION The Scottsboro Boys 2010 HEWES DESIGN NOMINATION Wig Out 2009 OBIE AWARD Sustained Excellence in Costume Design 2009 LORTEL AWARD NOMINATION Wig Out 2009 DENVER THEATRE OVATION AWARD NOMINEE 3 Mo' Divas 2008 HELEN HAYES NOMINATION 3 Mo' Divas 2007 HEWES DESIGN NOMINATION Bernarda Alba 2006 CONNECTICUT CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Baptiste 2001 FANY AWARD The Wild Party 2000 FANY NOMINATION Marie Christine 2000 AUDELCO NOMINATION Dessa Rose 2005 AUDELCO NOMINATION Thunder Knocking at the Door 2002 IRENE SHARAFF AWARD Young Masters Award for Costume Design Excellence 1996 DRAMA DESK NOMINATION The Tempest 1995 TONY NOMINATION Jelly’s Last Jam 1992 HEWES DESIGN AWARD Jelly’s Last Jam 1992 DRAMA DESK NOMINATION Jelly’s Last Jam 1992 DRAMA DESK NOMINATION The Caucasian Chalk Circle 1991 HEWES DESIGN NOMINATION The Caucasian Chalk Circle 1991 LA DRAMA-LOGUE AWARD Jelly’s Last Jam 1991 N.A.A.C.P. IMAGE AWARD NOMINATION Jelly’s Last Jam 1991 AUDELCO NOMINATION The Caucasian Chalk Circle 1991 AUDELCO NOMINATION Spunk 1990