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Collection Data
- Description
- Ann Hould-Ward is an American costume designer known for her work in Broadway and Off-Broadway theater, ballet, and opera. This collection consists of show and costume bibles, sketches, reference materials, press materials, programs, and photographs related to various productions.
- Names
- Hould-Ward, Ann (Creator)
- Dates / Origin
- Date Created: 1980 - 2019
- Library locations
- Billy Rose Theatre Division
- Shelf locator: *T-Vim 2019-011
- Topics
- Ballet -- Costume
- Costume design
- Costume design -- 20th century
- Costume design -- photographs
- Costume designers
- Off-Broadway theater -- History
- Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
- designers
- Notes
- Biographical/historical: Ann Hould-Ward (born April 8, 1954 in Glasgow, Montana) is an American costume designer known for her work in Broadway and Off-Broadway theater, ballet, and opera. A graduate of Mills College, the University of Virginia, and The Arts Student League of New York, Hould-Ward began her career as an assistant to Rouben Ter-Arutunian and Patricia Zipprodt. She co-designed with Zipprodt the original production of Sunday in the Park with George (1984) for which she received her first Tony nomination. She later worked on the Broadway shows Into the Woods (1987), Falsettos (1992), Beauty and the Beast (1994), the 2006 revival of Company, A Catered Affair (2008), A Free Man of Color (2010), The Visit (2015), and the 2015 revival of The Color Purple. She won a Tony Award for her work on Beauty and the Beast.
In addition to her Broadway designs, she also worked on regional and Off-Broadway productions, including work for the La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe Theatre (San Diego), and Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), as well as the U.S. National Tour of Dr. Dolittle (2005), the Nashville premiere of The Nutty Professor (2012), and the West End production of The Prince of Egypt (2020). Her Off-Broadway work included designs for Playwrights Horizons' Lobster Alice (2000) and the Second Stage Theatre's Let Me Down Easy (2009), as well as the Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (2007) and the Classic Stage Company's production of As You Like It(2017).
Her dance costuming included designs for the American Ballet Theatre, the White Oak Dance Project, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, and the Ballet Hispánico, and her opera costuming included designs for the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, and the Los Angeles Opera.
In addition to this work, starting in 2001 she designed costumes for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus, and in 2014 she redesigned the costume of the McDonald's mascot Ronald McDonald.
In 2001, Hould-Ward received the inaugural Patricia Zipprodt Award for Innovative Costume Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
- Content: Collection consists of show and costume bibles, sketches, reference materials, press materials, programs, and photographs related to Hould-Ward's career as a costume designer for Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, opera, and ballet. The collection covers both produced and canceled productions. Personal materials are minimal.
- Physical Description
- Extent: 11.02 linear feet (36 boxes, 7 oversize folders); 19.23 gigabytes (10,126 computer files)
- Type of Resource
- Text
- Still image
- Identifiers
- Other local Identifier: *T-Vim 2019-011
- NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b22530332
- MSS Unit ID: 29916
- Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c7f6d5c0-0941-013e-7f6f-0242ac110002
