Catherine Zuber
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BIO
Catherine Zuber received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for her work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Her select Broadway credits include Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady (Tony, Drama Desk & OCC Awards), Oslo, War Paint (Drama Desk & OCC awards), Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I (Olivier, Tony and OCC awards), Gigi (Drama Desk Award), The Royal Family (Tony Award), South Pacific (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award), The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award), Awake and Sing! (Tony Award). She is a 2017 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, and she was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2016.
Productions
Awards and Nominations
Catherine Zuber, Just in Time
Catherine Zuber, Just in Time
Catherine Zuber, Intimate Apparel
Catherine Zuber, Mrs. Doubtfire
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Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge!
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Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge!
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Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge!
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Catherine Zuber, My Fair Lady
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Catherine Zuber, My Fair Lady
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Catherine Zuber, My Fair Lady
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Catherine Zuber, War Paint
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Catherine Zuber, War Paint
Catherine Zuber, War Paint
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Catherine Zuber, The King and I
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Catherine Zuber, Gigi
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Catherine Zuber, The King and I
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Catherine Zuber, The King and I
Catherine Zuber, Far From Heaven
Catherine Zuber, Golden Boy
Catherine Zuber, South Pacific
Catherine Zuber, Death Takes a Holiday
Catherine Zuber, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Catherine Zuber, Born Yesterday
Catherine Zuber, The Royal Family
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Catherine Zuber, The Royal Family
Catherine Zuber, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Catherine Zuber, South Pacific
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Catherine Zuber, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
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Catherine Zuber, The Coast of Utopia
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Catherine Zuber, The Coast of Utopia
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Catherine Zuber, The Coast of Utopia
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Catherine Zuber, The Coast of Utopia
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Catherine Zuber, Awake and Sing!
Catherine Zuber, Edward Albee's Seascape
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Catherine Zuber, Engaged
Catherine Zuber, The Light in the Piazza
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Catherine Zuber, Intimate Apparel
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Catherine Zuber, The Light in the Piazza
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Catherine Zuber, Intimate Apparel
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Catherine Zuber, Intimate Apparel
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Catherine Zuber, The Beard of Avon
Catherine ZuberMuch Ado About Nothing
Catherine ZuberThe Winter's Tale
Catherine Zuber, Dinner at Eight
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Catherine Zuber, Dinner At Eight
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Catherine Zuber, Far Away
Catherine Zuber, Far Away
Catherine Zuber, Dinner at Eight
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Catherine Zuber, Dinner at Eight
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Catherine Zuber, Triumph of Love
Catherine Zuber, Twelfth Night
Catherine Zuber, Ivanov / Triumph of Love
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Catherine Zuber
Catherine ZuberHamlet
Catherine ZuberThe Merry Wives of Windsor
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Outstanding Costume Design of a Mus (Drama Desk Awards) for Just in Time, Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Just in Time, Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Intimate Apparel, Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Mrs. Doubtfire, Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Moulin Rouge!, Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Moulin Rouge!, Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Moulin Rouge!, Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for My Fair Lady, Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for My Fair Lady, Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for My Fair Lady, Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for War Paint, Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for War Paint, Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for War Paint, Best Costume Design (BroadwayWorld Awards) for The King and I, Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Gigi, Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The King and I, Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for The King and I, Outstanding Costume Design (The Lortels) for Far From Heaven, Best Costume Design of a Play (Tony Awards) for Golden Boy, Best Costume Design (Olivier Awards) for South Pacific, Outstanding Costume Design (The Lortels) for Death Takes a Holiday, Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Best Costume Design of a Play (Tony Awards) for Born Yesterday, Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The Royal Family, Best Costume Design of a Play (Tony Awards) for The Royal Family, Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for South Pacific, Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The Coast of Utopia, Special Achievement in Design (The Hewes Awards) for The Coast of Utopia, Best Costume Design of a Play (Tony Awards) for The Coast of Utopia, Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards) for The Coast of Utopia, Best Costume Design of a Play (Tony Awards) for Awake and Sing!, Best Costume Design of a Play (Tony Awards) for Edward Albee's Seascape, Costume design (Obie Awards) for Engaged, Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The Light in the Piazza, Outstanding Costume Design (The Lortels) for Intimate Apparel, Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for The Light in the Piazza, Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Intimate Apparel, Costume Design (The Hewes Awards) for Intimate Apparel, Outstanding Costume Design (The Lortels) for The Beard of Avon, Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Much Ado About Nothing, Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for The Winter's Tale, Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Dinner at Eight , Costume Design (The Hewes Awards) for Dinner At Eight, Costume Design (The Hewes Awards) for Far Away, Outstanding Costume Design (The Lortels) for Far Away, Best Scenic Design (Tony Awards) for Dinner at Eight, Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Dinner at Eight, Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Triumph of Love, Best Costume Design (Tony Awards) for Twelfth Night, Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Ivanov / Triumph of Love, Sustained excellence of costume design (Obie Awards), Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Hamlet and Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Catherine Zuber has won numerous prestigious awards for her outstanding costume design work. She received the Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) and Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) as well as Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Moulin Rouge! She earned the same trio of awards—Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical (Drama Desk Awards), Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards), and Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards)—for My Fair Lady. For War Paint, she won Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) and Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) (Outer Critics Circle Awards). Catherine won Best Costume Design (BroadwayWorld Awards) for The King and I, alongside Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) and Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for the same show. She also won Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Gigi. Her work on The Royal Family earned her Best Costume Design of a Play (Tony Awards), while Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific garnered her Best Costume Design of a Musical (Tony Awards). For The Coast of Utopia, she collected Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards), Special Achievement in Design (The Hewes Awards), Best Costume Design of a Play (Tony Awards), and Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards). She also won Best Costume Design of a Play (Tony Awards) for Awake and Sing! and received the Obie Award for Costume Design for Engaged. Her costume design for Intimate Apparel was recognized with Outstanding Costume Design (The Lortels), Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards), and Costume Design (The Hewes Awards). Additionally, she won Outstanding Costume Design (The Lortels) for The Beard of Avon and Costume Design (The Hewes Awards) for both Far Away and Dinner At Eight, along with Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Dinner at Eight. Lastly, she was honored with Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Triumph of Love and received an Obie Award recognizing sustained excellence in costume design.
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