Paul Tazewell

‘Wicked: For Good’: Paul Tazewell Upcycled Elphaba’s Looks and Wove Audrey Hepburn’s Style into Glinda’s Designs

December 8, 2025

At the end of “Wicked,” Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba leaps out of the Emerald City palace window in her velvet cape with her hat, and she flies off on her broom. “That is the moment where she…

‘Wicked: For Good’: Behind Glinda’s Extravagant Wedding, Including Designing a Dress with a 25-Meter Veil and Editing the Stampede to Sound like ‘Day of the Locust’

November 23, 2025

“Wicked: For Good” costume designer Paul Tazewell knew Glinda’s wedding dress visually needed to reflect a woman completely embedded in the culture of Emerald City — someone who wants to…

Costume Designer Paul Tazewell on Winning a Tony and Oscar Within Months: ‘This Black, Queer Little Boy in Akron, Ohio Had No Idea He Would Have the Year That He Had’

June 9, 2025

Costume designer Paul Tazewell won a Tony Award for his work on the Broadway musical “Death Becomes Her.” Tazewell, who worked on the film version of “Wicked, made Oscar history earlier…