Susan Hilferty
BFA, Syracuse; MFA, Yale. Designs sets and costumes for theatre; costumes for opera, dance, film, live music events and circus. Broadway credits include Wicked (Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards); Present Laughter (Tony nomination, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award nominations); Annie; Spring Awakening (Tony nomination); Hands On A Hardbody; Wonderland; Lestat (Tony nomination); August Wilson's Radio Golf; Assassins; Into the Woods (Tony and Drama Desk nominations and Hewes Award); Laurie Anderson’s Moby Dick; and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Hilferty's opera credits include La Traviata and Rigoletto for the Metropolitan Opera; Manon for Berlin Staatsoper and LA Opera. Her Ballet designs include works for Eliot Feld, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and Jennifer Muller. Other designs include Taylor Swift SPEAK NOW World Tour and Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus. In New York City, she designs at the major off-Broadway theatres including the Public
Caves, oil spills, and museums might not sound like the most likely sources of inspiration when it's your job to design costumes for a musical. But when you take a closer look at the costume Tony award-winning costume designer Susan Hilferty created for Elphaba, a complex character in WICKED with magical powers and emerald-green skin, you'll see what I mean.
Hilferty will sign the deed of gift for an Elphaba costume and broom from the musical on December 17 in a special ceremony that also includes a performance by WICKED actresses Donna Vivino (Elphaba) and Tiffany Haas (Glinda). Hilferty answered a few questions about her design process and the incredible details you can spot in the dress, which is currently on display in American Stories.
The Elphaba costume from the musical "WICKED," designed by Susan Hilferty
About how long did it take you to envision and flesh out the Elphaba costume? Where did you go for inspiration?
The process of designing all of WICKED was about two years and every costume—all the visual ideas, the setting, the whole sense of the world—takes place all at the same time so this particu
Susan Hilferty
BIO
Susan Hilferty has designed set and costumes for over productions across the globe. Recent designs include Parade (Broadway; Tony nomination), Funny Girl (Broadway), Swept Away (Berkeley Rep and Arena Stage), Hamlet (St. Anne’s Warehouse NY and Gate Theatre, Dublin), Waiting for Godot TFNA/NYC, Richard Nelson’s What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad (Loewe Theatre, NYC), and A Bright Room Called Day (Public Theatre). Her many Broadway designs include Wicked (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), August Wilson’s Radio Golf. Present Laughter (Tony nomination), Hands on a Hardbody, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), Lestat (Tony nomination), Annie ( Revival), Into the Woods (Tony and Drama Desk nominations; Hewes Award), and Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland. Her designs for opera include Rigoletto, La Traviata, and the upcoming Aida for the Metropolitan Opera and Manon at LA Opera and Berlin Staatsoper. Hilferty has designed over a hundred off-Broadway productions including Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Plays, August Wilson’s Jitney and Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena.
She works with such well-known directors as Athol Fugar
Susan Hilferty's costumes for the musical WICKED are part of a carefully crafted world, one that she envisioned "had broken off in and gone off into space" where it became its own unique culture. The Tony award-winning costume designer spoke to us about how it also took a village to create the costumes, what it feels like to have her work in the museum, and more. You can find the first part of the interview here.
Hilferty will sign the deed of gift for an Elphaba costume and broom from the musical on December 17 in a special ceremony that also includes a performance by WICKED actresses Donna Vivino (Elphaba) and Tiffany Haas (Glinda). The Elphaba dress, hat, and broom are currently on display in American Stories.
On the left, the Elphaba costume on display in the museum. On the right, Marcie Dodd in "WICKED," photographed by Joan Marcus.
The hat has a very important role to play in the narrative. Can you tell us about it?
An interesting fact; if you look at the [William Wallace] Denslow illustrations of the [Wonderful] Wizard of Oz, everybody in Oz wears pointed hats. It’s part of thei
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