Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play is an award for outstanding costume design of a play. The award was first presented in 1961 after the category of Best Costume Design was divided into Costume Design in a Play and Costume Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award.
Winners and nominees
1960s Year Production Nominees 1961 Becket Motley Theatre Design Group All the Way Home Raymond Sovey The Devil's Advocate Theoni V. Aldredge
2000s Year Production Nominees 2005 The Rivals Jess Goldstein Gem of the Ocean Constanza Romero A Streetcar Named Desire William Ivey Long Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Jane Greenwood 2006 Awake and Sing! Catherine Zuber The Constant Wife Michael Krass Seascape Catherine Zuber A Touch of the Poet Santo Loquasto 2007 The Coast of Utopia Catherine Zuber Coram Boy Ti Green and Melly Still Heartbreak House Jane Greenwood Inherit the Wind Santo Loquasto 2008 Les Liaisons Dangereuses Katrina Lindsay Boeing-Boeing Rob Howell Cyrano de Bergerac Gregory Gale The 39 Steps Peter McKintosh 2009 Mary Stuart Anthony Ward Blithe Spirit Martin Pakledinaz Exit the King Dale Ferguson Waiting for Godot Jane Greenwood
2010s Year Production Nominees 2010 The Royal Family Catherine Zuber Fences Constanza Romero In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) David Zinn Lend Me a Tenor Martin Pakledinaz 2011 The Importance of Being Earnest Desmond Heeley La Bête Mark Thompson Born Yesterday Catherine Zuber The Merchant of Venice Jess Goldstein 2012 Peter and the Starcatcher Paloma Young Don't Dress for Dinner William Ivey Long One Man, Two Guvnors Mark Thompson A Streetcar Named Desire Paul Tazewell 2013 The Nance Ann Roth Cyrano de Bergerac Soutra Gilmour Golden Boy Catherine Zuber The Heiress Albert Wolsky 2014 Twelfth Night Jenny Tiramani Act One Jane Greenwood Casa Valentina Rita Ryack Machinal Michael Krass 2015 Wolf Hall Parts One & Two Christopher Oram Airline Highway David Zinn The Audience Bob Crowley You Can't Take It with You Jane Greenwood 2016 Eclipsed Clint Ramos King Charles III Tom Scutt Long Day's Journey into Night Jane Greenwood Noises Off Michael Krass 2017 The Little Foxes Jane Greenwood A Doll's House, Part 2 David Zinn Jitney Toni-Leslie James Present Laughter Susan Hilferty 2018 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Katrina Lindsay Angels in America Nicky Gillibrand Farinelli and the King Jonathan Fensom The Iceman Cometh Ann Roth Three Tall Women 2019 The Ferryman Rob Howell Bernhardt/Hamlet Toni-Leslie James Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus Ann Roth To Kill a Mockingbird Torch SongClint Ramos
2020s Year Production Nominees 2020 A Christmas Carol Rob Howell The Inheritance Bob Crowley The Rose Tattoo Clint Ramos Slave Play Dede Ayite A Soldier's Play 2022 The Skin of Our Teeth Montana Levi Blanco Clyde's Jennifer Moeller for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf Sarafina Bush Neil Simon's Plaza Suite Jane Greenwood Trouble in Mind Emilio Sosa 2023 Leopoldstadt Brigitte Reiffenstuel Ain't No Mo' Emilio Sosa Fat Ham Dominique Fawn HillGood Night, Oscar Emilio Sosa Life of Pi Tim Hatley, Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell 2024 Jaja's African Hair Braiding Dede AyiteAppropriate Dede Ayite An Enemy of the People David ZinnPurlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp through the Cotton Patch Emilio Sosa StereophonicEnver Chakartash 2025The Picture of Dorian Gray Marg Horwell Good Night, and Good Luck Brenda AbbandandoloThe Hills of California Rob Howell Oh, Mary! Holly PiersonStranger Things: The First Shadow Brigitte Reiffenstuel 2026 Fallen Angels Jeff Mahshie The Balusters Emilio Sosa Dog Day Afternoon Brenda Abbandandolo Joe Turner's Come and Gone Paul Tazewell Liberation Qween Jean
Multiple wins This also includes wins in the former Best Costume Design category
3 wins Catherine Zuber
2 wins Desmond Heeley Rob Howell Katrina Lindsay Motley Theatre Design Group
Multiple nominations This also includes nominations in the former Best Costume Design category
8 nominations Jane Greenwood
6 nominations Catherine Zuber
5 nominations Ann Roth Emilio Sosa
4 nominations Dede Ayite Rob Howell David Zinn
3 nominations Michael Krass Clint Ramos
2 nominations Brenda Abbandandolo Bob Crowley Jess Goldstein Toni-Leslie James Katrina Lindsay William Ivey Long Santo Loquasto Martin Pakledinaz Constanza Romero Brigitte Reiffenstuel Paul Tazewell Mark Thompson
See also Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design of a Play Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design List of Tony Award-nominated productions
References
External links Tony Awards Official site Tony Awards at Internet Broadway database Listing Tony Awards at broadwayworld.com