Susan Hilferty is an American costume designer for theatre, opera, and film. She received the 2001 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design.Hilferty's Broadway credits include the costumes for Wicked (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards), Lestat (Tony nomination), Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), Radio Golf, Assassins, the revival of Into the Woods (Tony nomination, Hewes Award), Jitney, Dirty Blonde, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.Hilferty has collaborated often with playwright Athol Fugard and has designed for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, and the Roundabout. Regional theaters employing Hilferty's costumes have included the Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, McCarter Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Indiana Rep, Kennedy Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and American Conservatory Theater.Hilferty also has designed ballet costumes for works by Eliot Feld, Alvin Ailey, and Jennifer Muller.Hilferty also leads the Graduate Department of Design for Stage and Film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
She was nominated for a 2002 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Costume Design for "Into The Woods" on Broadway in New York City.
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She was awarded the 1995 Drama-Logue Award for Costume Design for "The Woman Warrior" in presented by the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle (University of California) Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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She was nominated for a 1996 Joseph Jefferson Award for Costume Design for "The House of Martin Guerre" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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She was nominated for a 1991 Joseph Jefferson Award for Costume Design for "A Midsummer's Night Dream" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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She was nominated for a 1984 Joseph Jefferson Award for Costume Design for "The Three Musketeers" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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She was nominated for a 1983 Joseph Jefferson Award for Costume Design for "The Comedy of Errors" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Won Broadway's 2004 Tony Award as Best Costume Designer for "Wicked." She was also nominated in the same category in 2002 for "Into the Woods."
Costume Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live
2013
TV Series 1 episode
Manon
2007/I
TV Movie
The Comedy of Errors
1987
TV Movie
Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson
1986
Documentary
ABC Weekend Specials
1985
TV Series 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage
2013
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live
2013
TV Series
Herself - Costume Designer
Working in the Theatre
2009
TV Series documentary
Herself
Postcards
2008
TV Series
Herself
Wicked: The Road to Broadway
2004
Video documentary short
Herself
The 58th Annual Tony Awards
2004
TV Special
Herself - Winner: Best Costume Design
The 56th Annual Tony Awards
2002
TV Special
Herself - Nominee: Best Costume Design
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1985
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
ABC Weekend Specials (1977)
Known for movies
Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson (1986) as Costume Designer
The 58th Annual Tony Awards (2004) as Herself - Winner: Best Costume Design
$13 Million
