Gregory Gale is a New York-based costume designer.
Gregory Gale is a New York-based costume designer.
Gale is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology and is well known for his character-driven designs.[ citation needed ] In 2009 he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for Rock of Ages , [1] a musical that uses the classic rock hits from the 1980s. [2] He was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play in 2008 for his work on Cyrano de Bergerac. In 2007 Gale won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design for his work on The Voysey Inheritance. He was also nominated that same year for his work on The Milliner.
Gale has designed costumes for Broadway, International Productions, Off-Broadway, Regional Theaters, National Tours, Opera, Las Vegas and Special Events. Some of the most notable are:
Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. The play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of Cyrano de Bergerac's life.
Lucille Lortel was an American actress, artistic director, and theatrical producer. In the course of her career Lortel produced or co-produced nearly 500 plays, five of which were nominated for Tony Awards: As Is by William M. Hoffman, Angels Fall by Lanford Wilson, Blood Knot by Athol Fugard, Mbongeni Ngema's Sarafina!, and A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing. She also produced Marc Blitzstein's adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, a production which ran for seven years and according to The New York Times "caused such a sensation that it...put Off-Broadway on the map."
Scott Pask is an American scenic and costume designer. He has worked primarily on stage productions in the United States, on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and in regional theatre, as well as in the United Kingdom. He has won Tony Awards for his work on The Pillowman, The Coast of Utopia and The Book of Mormon.
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