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Three months after making history as the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Costume Design for his work on Wicked, ...
Costume designer Paul Tazewell admits his "visibility" has grown this year after winning an Oscar for "Wicked" and now a Tony ...
Tazewell is just the second person in history to win both an Oscar and a Tony for costume design in the same year.
It didn't take an act of Ozian magic for "Wicked" costume designer Paul Tazewell to make Oscars history. Tazewell, who helped bring the fantastical world of Elphaba and Glinda to life through his ...
He doesn’t have an EGOT yet, but Akron’s own Paul Tazewell does have an Oscar, an Emmy and now two Tony Awards.
Tazewell, who worked on the film version of “Wicked, made Oscar history earlier this year as the first Black man to win best costume design. During his acceptance speech, Tazewell said ...
Tazewell’s film credits include “Harriet” and Disney+’s “Hamilton,” and his television work earned an Emmy for NBC’s “The Wiz Live!”Three additional alumni from the schools of Dance and Drama were ...
Paul Tazewell continues to collect accolades for his costume designs this year. The Akron native won a Tony Award for his ...
Paul Tazewell, an alumnus of the School of Design and Production (D&P) at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts ...
Carter and Paul Tazewell. For one, they’re the only two Black people to win the Oscar for Best Costume Design (Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever for Carter and Wicked for Tazewell).