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Virtual Conversation with a Theater Maker: Toni-Leslie James

Event Overview

Dates

June 26, 2020

Hours

4:45-5:45 PM (EDT)

Location

Admission

FREE and open to all

Since late March, Program in Theater Director Jane Cox has invited special guests to join her students for informal conversations about theater-making and the creative process. The broader community is invited to join these virtual conversations on Zoom. We ask — what inspires these significant theater artists? What does community mean to them? How do they think about audiences, casting, design, arts education?

This week, we’re turning the mic over to Princeton Theater alumnae Victoria Davidjohn ’19 and Abigail Jean-Baptiste ’18 who will host Toni-Leslie James, an award-winning costume designer for theater, film and television. The 30-minute conversation will be followed by a Q&A for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) attendees only.

The conversation is free and open to the public.

Join the event on Zoom at: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/122252650
Meeting ID: 122 252 650

 

ABOUT

toni among costumed mannequins

Photo by Julia Rendleman/courtesy Toni Leslie-James

TONI-LESLIE JAMES has designed costumes nationally for every entertainment venue: feature film, television, opera, dance, industrials, regional theater, and Broadway. For Broadway, she has designed Bernhardt/Hamlet, Come From Away (Hewes Design Award, Drama Desk nomination), August Wilson’s Jitney (TONY nomination, Drama Desk nomination), Amazing Grace (Hewes Design Nomination), Lucky Guy, The Scottsboro Boys, Finian’s Rainbow, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, King Hedley II, One Mo’ Time, The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Footloose, The Tempest, Twilight Los Angeles 1992, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches & Perestroika, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Jelly’s Last Jam. Internationally, she has designed for The Abbey Theater in Dublin, Ireland, two productions on the West End, The Young Vic, The Royal Court Theater and The Chichester Theater Festival in the UK, The Athens Greek Festival, and Radio Dansmark TV in Denmark. She was the head costume designer for Whoopi on NBC, and the CBS soap opera, As the World Turns. Ms. James has garnered a total of forty-one costume design nominations or awards for her contributions to various theatrical productions. Ms. James is an Associate Professor and Head of Design at Virginia Commonwealth University and received her BFA in Theatre from The Ohio State University.

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  • Program in Theater

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