William Ivey Long Honorary Materials 2007-2011

William Ivey Long (1947- ) is a renowned costume designer with an illustrious career on Broadway spanning over thirty years. A native North Carolinian, he was born in Seaboard, NC and spent much of his childhood in Manteo, NC. He was first introduced to costume design as a small child when, during the summers, his family was involvement with Paul Green's outdoor drama "The Lost Colony" in Manteo. Since 1988, Long has returned each summer as the production designer.

Long has been involved with costume design for over sixty Broadway shows. He was nominated for fifteen Tony Awards, winning six for his designs in the productions of Grey Gardens, Hairspray, The Producers, Crazy for You, Nine, and Cinderella. He has won the Drama Desk Award for costume designs for Hairspray, The Producers, Guys and Dolls, Lend Me a Tenor, and Nine, and has received numerous Outer Critics Circle Awards. In 2003, he won the Legend of Fashion Award from the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2005 was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. In 2007, the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC was the first to showcase Long's costume designs and sketches in an exhibit titled "Between Taste and Travesty: Costume Designs by William Ivey Long." In 2011, Long received the Design Guild Award from NC State University's College of Design, and in 2012 he was elected Chairman of the Board for the American Theatre Wing.

For many years, Long has been an active mentor for NC State University students during the Art to Wear fashion show at the College of Design and College of Textiles. Long is also involved with the Seaboard School of Fashion and Costume, again partnering with the Colleges of Design and Textiles to provide students hands-on costume design and fabrication experience.

The William Ivey Long Honorary Materials consist of one folder of materials, dating from 2007 to 2011, that relate to William Ivey Long's achievements,. They include a program and invitation for the 14th Annual Design Guild Award Dinner at which Long was the award recipient; materials from the Cameron Art Museum's exhibit of Long's costume designs and sketches; a copy of Our State Magazine; and a News and Observer newspaper article covering a fire in Manteo, North Carolina, that destroyed the costume shop for The Lost Colony drama.

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[Identification of item], William Ivey Long Honorary Materials, MSS 00407, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Gift of Carolyn Solomon, 2016 (Accession 2016.0116)

Processed by: Jessica Serrao, April 2016; machine-readable finding aid created by: Jessica Serrao, April 2016.