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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, ...
The Buchtel High School graduate is just the second person in history to win both an Oscar and a Tony for costume design in ...
He doesn’t have an EGOT yet, but Akron’s own Paul Tazewell does have an Oscar, an Emmy and now two Tony Awards.
Paul Tazewell, an alumnus of the School of Design and Production (D&P) at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts ...
Costume designer Paul Tazewell admits his "visibility" has grown this year after winning an Oscar for "Wicked" and now a Tony ...
Costume designer Paul Tazewell won a Tony Award for his work on the Broadway musical “Death Becomes Her.” Tazewell, who worked on the film version of “Wicked, made Oscar history earlier this ...
Akron native Paul Tazewell took home his second Tony Award Monday for best costume design in a musical for his work in “Death ...
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 ...
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).
For one musical, there was no “maybe” about its happy ending at the Tony Awards. “Maybe Happy Ending” won the best new ...