William Ivey Long & Bob Crowley Win TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards

Five-time Tony Award winners William Ivey Long and Bob Crowley have been awarded 2009 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards for outstanding theatrical design. Long will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for theatrical costume design; Crowley has been awarded the Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatrical Design. The awards will be bestowed at a ceremony on March 27 at the Hudson Theatre.

In addition, costume designer Clint Ramos will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, and craftsman/designer Sally Ann Parsons will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Artisan Award.

Long has designed the costumes for more than 50 Broadway shows, including the currently running Pal Joey and the forthcoming 9 to 5. He won Tonys for Grey Gardens, Hairspray, The Producers, Crazy for You and Nine and was Tony-nominated for La Cage aux Folles, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Music Man, Cabaret, Chicago and Lend Me a Tenor.

Crowley has won Tonys for his scenic design of Mary Poppins, The Coast of Utopia, The History Boys, Aida and Carousel and has been nominated for Tonys for the sets in The Invention of Love, Twelfth Night, The Capeman and Les Liaisons Dangereuses and for the costumes in Mary Poppins, Aida and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.