Ann Hould-Ward

Ann Hould-Ward...
Born	April 8, 1954 Glasgow, Montana, U.S.
Education	University of Virginia
Known for	Costume designer
Awards	Tony Award for Best Costume Design Drama Desk Award

Ann Hould-Ward (born April 8, 1954, Glasgow, Montana) is an American costume designer, primarily for the theatre and dance. She has designed the costumes for 19 Broadway productions (as of February 2011). She won the 1994 Tony Award for Beauty and the Beast.

Ann Hould-Ward attended Mills College (B.A.), the University of Virginia (M.F.A.), and the Art Students League. After writing to Patricia Zipprodt asking for a job, she was introduced by her to Rouben Ter-Arutunian and became his assistant. She later was Zipprodt's assistant.

Her first Broadway costume designs were for the musical Sunday in the Park with George (1984), in collaboration with Patricia Zipprodt, for which they received a joint Tony Award nomination. She designed the costumes for the Broadway musical A Catered Affair (2008), for which she received the 2008 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design. Her costumes for Beauty and the Beast (tour) were called "luscious, from peasant garb in the early scenes to elegant formal wear in the finale and the ornate costumes of the half-human candlesticks, clocks and teapots that share the Beast's spell." In reviewing Stephen Sondheim's Road Show, the theatermania.com reviewer noted: "Still, the ensemble members definitely look smart in the outfits Ann Hould-Ward has designed to conjure the blueprints Addison ran up for his fabled Palm Beach homes." Her costume designs for the revival of Sondheim's Company were called " dark, sleek costumes" by the USA Today reviewer.

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