Jeanne Button

One of the earliest female professional costume designers, she’s costumed hundreds of shows, including fifteen on Broadway (Equus, Wings) ; designed costumes for opera, film, television and dance; taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Yale University Drama School ; and co-authored the definitive teachers’ reference, A History of Costume in Slides, Notes and Commentaries with Stephen Sbarge, 1978.

Bio as of August, 2007.