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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.

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Toni-Leslie James Productions

 
[Broadway, 2022]
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[Broadway, 2021]
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[San Francisco (Regional), 2019]
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[New York, 2016]
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Toni-Leslie James Awards and Nominations

Tony Awards - 2022 - Best Costume Design of a Musical

Toni-Leslie James, Paradise Square

Drama Desk Awards - 2020 - Outstanding Costume Design for a Play

Toni-Leslie James, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf


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Drama Desk Awards - 2019 - Outstanding Costume Design for a Play

Toni-Leslie James, Bernhardt/Hamlet

Tony Awards - 2019 - Best Costume Design of a Play

Toni-Leslie James, Bernhardt/Hamlet

Drama Desk Awards - 2017 - Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical

Toni-Leslie James, Come From Away

Drama Desk Awards - 2017 - Outstanding Costume Design for a Play

Toni-Leslie James, Jitney

Tony Awards - 2017 - Best Costume Design of a Play

Toni-Leslie James, August Wilson's Jitney

The Lortels - 2016 - Outstanding Costume Design

Toni-Leslie James, First Daughter Suite

The Lortels - 2013 - Outstanding Costume Design

Toni-Leslie JamesA Civil War Christmas


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Obie Awards - 2009 - Design

Toni-Leslie JamesSustained excellence of costume design


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Obie Awards - 2009 - Design

Toni-Leslie JamesSustained excellence of costume design

The Lortels - 2009 - Outstanding Costume Design

Toni-Leslie James, Wig Out!

Helen Hayes Awards - 2007 - Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Toni-Leslie James3 Mo' Divas

Drama Desk Awards - 1995 - Outstanding Costume Design

Toni-Leslie James, The Tempest

Drama Desk Awards - 1992 - Outstanding Costume Design

Toni-Leslie James, Jelly's Last Jam


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The Hewes Awards - 1992 - Costume Design

Toni-Leslie James, Jelly's Last Jam

Tony Awards - 1992 - Best Costume Design

Toni-Leslie James , Jelly's Last Jam

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Toni-Leslie James FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What awards has Toni-Leslie James been nominated for?

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."

What awards has Toni-Leslie James won?

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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