William Ivey Long Biography ((?)-)

Addresses: Agent: International Creative Management, 40 West 57th St.,New York, NY 10019-4098.

Gender: Male
Occupation: Costume designer

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Work
Costume Designer; Unless Otherwise Noted
The Wonderful O!, Carolina Repertory Company, 1972
(And scenery designer) Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1974
(And scenery designer) An Evening with Dead Essex, Yale RepertoryTheatre, 1974
Idiots Karamazov, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1974
(And scenery designer) Scrontch, Theatre at St. Peter's Church, New York City, 1975
Two Small Bodies, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1977
Earth-Worms, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1977
Conjuring an Event, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1978
The Killing of Yablonsky, PAF Playhouse, Huntington Station, NY, 1978
(And scenery designer) Hancock's Last Half Hour, PAF Playhouse, 1978
(And scenery designer) The Gold Standard, PAF Playhouse, 1978
Gossip, PAF Playhouse, 1979
Taming of the Shrew, Wolftrap, Vienna, VA, 1979
Postcard from Morocco, Terrace Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center forthe Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1979
The Vienna Notes, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1979
The Inspector General, Circle in the Square, New York City, 1979
Altar Boys, Theatre Four, New York City, 1979
The 1940's Radio Hour, St. James Theatre, New York City, 1979
Jungle Coup, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1979
The Impossible H.L. Mencken, American Place Theatre, 1979-1980
Passione, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, then Morosco Theatre, NewYork City, both 1980
Johnny on a Spot, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, 1980
True West, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New YorkCity, 1980
Mass Appeal, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1980, then Booth Theatre, New York City, 1981
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Alaska Repertory Theatre, Anchorage/Fairbanks, 1981
The Actor's Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains ItAll for You (double-bill), Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1981
Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1981
Twelve Dreams, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1981
The Front Page, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1981
Nine, 46th Street Theatre, New York City, 1982
Poor Little Lambs, Theatre at St. Peter's Church, 1982
The Lady and the Clarinet, Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City,1983
American Passion, Joyce Theater, New York City, 1983
Not Quite Jerusalem, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, 1983
The Tap Dance Kid, Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, 1983, then Minskoff Theatre, New York City, 1984
Play Memory, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1984
End of the World, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1984
Nine, Opera House, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,1984
Hey Ma ... Kaye Ballard, Promenade Theatre, New York City, 1984
After the Fall, Playhouse 91, New York City, 1984
A Broadway Baby, Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, CT, 1985
The Marriage of Bette and Boo, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1985
One Man Band, South Street Theatre, New York City, 1985
Principia Scriptoriae, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1986

Hamlet, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1986
Smile, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, 1986
A Quiet Place, Vienna Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria, 1986
Trouble in Tahiti, Vienna Staatsoper, 1986
Wozzeck, Welsh National Opera, 1986
Hamletmachine, Theatre at New York University, New York City, 1986
Sleight of Hand, Cort Theatre, New York City, 1987
Laughing Wild, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1987
Wenceslas Square, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1988
Mail, Music Box Theatre, 1988
Italian American Reconciliation, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1988
Lend Me a Tenor, Royale Theatre, New York City, 1989
Together Again for the First Time, Kaufman Theatre, 1989
Eleemosynary, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1989
Welcome to the Club, Music Box Theatre, 1989
Carnival, Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, OH, 1989
Six Degrees of Separation, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, New York City, 1990
Assassins, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1991
Private Lives, National Theatre, 1991
The Cutting Edge, Toronto, Ontario, 1991
The Homecoming, Roundabout Theatre, New York City, 1991
Crazy for You, National Theatre/Shubert Theatre, 1992
Guys and Dolls, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1992
Face Value, Cort Theatre, 1993
Life with Mikey, Toronto, 1993
Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York City, 1993
Picnic, Roundabout Theatre, 1994
Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller, Virginia Theatre, New York City, 1995
The Food Chain, Westside Theatre, New York City, 1995
A Christmas Carol, Theatre at Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1995-1997
Big (musical), Shubert Theatre, New York City, 1996
Chicago, Richard Rodgers Theatre, 1996
Steel Pier, Richard Rodgers Theatre, 1997
Cabaret, Kit Kat Club, Henry Miller Theatre, New York City, 1998
The Mystery of Irma Vep, 1998
Annie Get Your Gun, Broadway production, 1999
The Civil War, Broadway production, 1999
"Epic Proportions" and "Did You Move&quest;" in Boys Meet Girls (double-bill), 2000
Contact, Theatre at Lincoln Center, 2000
Also costume designer for the plays King David, The Lost Colony, The Music Man, Swing!, and The Syringa Tree; costume designer for Men's Fugue, Twyla Tharp Dance Company. Costume designer for ballets, including the New York City Ballet, 1996 and 1998, operas, and numerous dance productions, including work for Paul Taylor Dance Company and Parsons Dance Company.
Major Tours
Costume Designer
Nine, U.S. cities, 1984
A Quiet Place, U.S. cities, 1986
Trouble in Tahiti, U.S. cities, 1986
The Tap Dance Kid, U.S. cities, 1987
Chicago, international cities, 1998
Cabaret, U.S. cities, 1999
Television Costume Designer
Specials
The 1985 Miss Universe Pageant, CBS, 1985
The 1988 Miss Universe Pageant, CBS, 1988
Miss Teen U.S.A., CBS, 1988
"Roses" in "Paul Taylor: Roses and Last Look," Great Performances,PBS, 1988
"Barber Violin Concerto," Ballerinas: Dances by Peter Martins, PBS, 1991
The Gershwins' "Crazy for You," PBS, 1999
The Man Who Came to Dinner, PBS, 2000
Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller, Broadway Television, 2000
Episodic
"Ask Me Again," American Playhouse, PBS, 1989
Television Costumer Designer
Movies
Curtain Call, Starz!, 1999
Television Appearances
Specials
Broadway '97: Launching the Tonys, PBS, 1997
The Music of Kander and Ebb: Razzle Dazzle, PBS, 1997
Film Costume Designer
The Cutting Edge, 1992
Life with Mikey (also known as Give Me a Break), 1993

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Contemporary Designers, November, 1995, 3rd edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1997.

Periodicals:

Architectural Digest, p. 138.

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