Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design

Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design
Awarded for	Outstanding Costume Design
Location	New York City
Presented by	Outer Critics Circle
Currently held by	Gregg Barnes, BOOP! The Musical (2025)
Website	OuterCriticsCircle.org

The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design is an honor presented at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, a ceremony established in 1950 for excellence in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, to costume designers of any production. The category was added to the ceremony in 1988 as "Best Costume Design" before being changed to "Outstanding Costume Design" in 1999.

William Ivey Long has received the most wins and nominations, winning six out of 16 nominations. Others with multiple wins include Gregg Barnes with three wins, and Florence Klotz and Tim Hatley with two wins each. Behind Long in nominations is Catherine Zuber with 12 nominations and Martin Pakledinaz with eight nominations.

Award winners and nominees

Key

  and bold indicates the winner.

1980s

Year	Name	Work	Ref.
1988
	John Wulp	The Phantom of the Opera	[1][2]
1989
	William Ivey Long	Lend Me a Tenor	[1]

1990s

Year	Name	Work	Ref.
Note: award given as "Best Set, Costume and Lighting Design"
1990
	Florence Klotz	City of Angels	[3][4]
1991
	Theoni V. Aldredge	The Secret Garden	[5]
1992
	William Ivey Long	Crazy for You	[6][7]
	Joe Vanck	Dancing at Lughnasa
	Willa Kim	Four Baboons Adoring the Sun
	Frank Krenz	Song of Singapore
1993
	David C. Woolard	The Who's Tommy	[8][9]
1994
	Bob Crowley	Carousel	[10]
1995
	Florence Klotz	Show Boat	[11][12]
1996
	Roger Kirk	The King and I	[13][14]
1997
	Howard Crabtree	Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly	[15][16]
	Peter Kaczorowski	Steel Pier
	Jane Greenwood	The Last Night of Ballyhoo
	Stewart Laing	Titanic
1998
	Julie Taymor	The Lion King	[17][18]
	William Ivey Long	Cabaret
	Jane Greenwood	The Scarlet Pimpernel
	Santo Loquasto	Ragtime
Note: award given as "Outstanding Costume Design"
1999
	Lez Brotherston	Swan Lake	[19][20]
	Santo Loquasto	Fosse
	Bob Crowley	The Iceman Cometh
	William Ivey Long	The Mystery of Irma Vep

2000s

Year	Name	Work	Ref.
2000
	Constance Hoffman	The Green Bird	[21][22]
	William Dudley	Amadeus
	Martin Pakledinaz	Kiss Me, Kate
	William Ivey Long	The Music Man
2001
	William Ivey Long	The Producers	[23][24]
	Roger Kirk	42nd Street
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Follies
	Andreane Neofitou	Jane Eyre
2002
	Isaac Mizrahi	The Women	[25][26]
	Anthony Ward	Oklahoma!
	Santo Loquasto	The Elephant Man
	Martin Pakledinaz	Thoroughly Modern Millie
2003
	William Ivey Long	Hairspray	[27][28]
	Catherine Zuber	Dinner at Eight
	Jess Goldstein	Enchanted April
	Catherine Martin	La bohème
	Vicki Mortimer	Nine
2004
	Susan Hilferty	Wicked	[29][30]
	Jess Goldstein	Henry IV
	Catherine Zuber	Intimate Apparel
	Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce	Taboo
2005
	Tim Hatley	Spamalot	[31][32]
	William Ivey Long	La Cage aux Folles
	Anthony Ward	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
	Catherine Zuber	The Light in the Piazza
2006
	Gregg Barnes	The Drowsy Chaperone	[33][34]
	William Ivey Long	Grey Gardens
	Martin Pakledinaz	The Pajama Game
	William Dudley	The Woman in White
2007
	Catherine Zuber	The Coast of Utopia	[35][36]
	Judith Dolan	LoveMusik
	Bob Crowley	Mary Poppins
	Martin Pakledinaz	The Pirate Queen
2008
	Katrina Lindsay	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	[37][38]
	Jessica Jahn	Die Mommie Die!
	Catherine Zuber	South Pacific
	David Farley	Sunday in the Park With George
	William Ivey Long	Young Frankenstein
2009
	Tim Hatley	Shrek the Musical	[39][40]
	Nicky Gillibrand	Billy Elliot
	Martin Pakledinaz	Blithe Spirit
	John Napier	Equus
	Catherine Zuber	Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

2010s

Year	Name	Work	Ref.
2010
	Matthew Wright	La Cage aux Folles	[41][42]
	Martin Pakledinaz	Lend Me a Tenor
	Jane Greenwood	Present Laughter
	Catherine Zuber	The Royal Family
2011
	Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner	Priscilla Queen of the Desert	[43][44]
	Lizz Wolf	Baby It's You
	Lez Brotherston	Sister Act
	Desmond Heeley	The Importance of Being Earnest
2012
	Eiko Ishioka	Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark	[45][46]
	Gregg Barnes	Follies
	Martin Pakledinaz	Nice Work If You Can Get It
	William Ivey Long	Don't Dress for Dinner
2013
	William Ivey Long	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella	[47][48]
	Dominique Lemieux	Pippin
	Amy Clark and Martin Pakledinaz	Chaplin
	Gregg Barnes	Kinky Boots
	William Ivey Long	The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2014
	William Ivey Long	Bullets Over Broadway	[49][50]
	Gregg Barnes	Aladdin
	Linda Cho	A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
	Jenny Tiramani	Twelfth Night
	Isabel Toledo	After Midnight
2015
	Catherine Zuber	The King and I	[51][52]
	Gregg Barnes	Something Rotten!
	Bob Crowley	The Audience
	William Ivey Long	On the Twentieth Century
	Christopher Oram	Wolf Hall
2016
	Jeff Mahshie	She Loves Me	[53][54][55]
	Emilio Sosa	On Your Feet!
	Katrina Lindsay	American Psycho
	Jane Greenwood	Bright Star
	Tom Scutt	King Charles III
2017
	Catherine Zuber	War Paint	[56][57]
	Linda Cho	Anastasia
	Susan Hilferty	Present Laughter
	Santo Loquasto	Hello, Dolly!
	Ann Roth	Shuffle Along
2018
	Catherine Zuber	My Fair Lady	[58][59]
	Clint Ramos	Once on This Island
	Paloma Young	Time and the Conways
	Katrina Lindsay	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
	David Zinn	SpongeBob SquarePants
2019
	Bob Mackie	The Cher Show	[60][61]
	Rob Howell	The Ferryman
	William Ivey Long	Tootsie
		Beetlejuice
	Arianne Phillips	Head Over Heels

2020s

Year	Name	Work	Ref.
2020 (Hon.)	Jeff Mahshie	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	[62]
	Vanessa Leuck	Emojiland
	Catherine Zuber	Moulin Rouge!
	Rachel Townsend	The Confession of Lily Dare
	Mark Thompson	Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
2021	No award given due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2022
	Gabriella Slade	Six	[63]
	Jane Greenwood	Plaza Suite
	Santo Loquasto	The Music Man
	Emilio Sosa	Trouble in Mind
	Catherine Zuber	Mrs. Doubtfire
2023
	Gregg Barnes	Some Like It Hot	[64]
	Paloma Young	& Juliet
	Dede M. Ayite	Topdog/Underdog
	Donna Zakowska	New York, New York
	Brigitte Reiffenstuel	Leopoldstadt
2024
	Linda Cho	The Great Gatsby	[65]
	Sydney Maresca	The Cottage
	Enver Chakartash	Teeth
		Stereophonic
	Dede M. Ayite	Jaja's African Hair Braiding
2025
	Gregg Barnes	Boop! The Musical	[66][67]
	Paul Tazewell	Death Becomes Her
	Qween Jean	Cats: The Jellicle Ball
	Rob Howell	The Hills of California
	Wilberth Gonzalez and Paloma Young	Real Women Have Curves

Multiple wins

6 wins

• William Ivey Long

3 wins

• Gregg Barnes

2 wins

• Florence Klotz
• Tim Hatley

Multiple nominations

16 nominations

• William Ivey Long

12 nominations

• Catherine Zuber

8 nominations

• Martin Pakledinaz

7 nominations

• Gregg Barnes

5 nominations

• Jane Greenwood
• Santo Loquasto

4 nominations

• Bob Crowley

3 nominations

• Katrina Lindsay
• Linda Cho
• Paloma Young

2 nominations

• Florence Klotz
• Theoni V. Aldredge
• Roger Kirk
• Lez Brotherston
• William Dudley
• Anthony Ward
• Susan Hilferty
• Jess Goldstein
• Emilio Sosa
• Jeff Mahshie
• Dede M. Ayite
• Enver Chakartash

See also

• Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play
• Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design
• Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design

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