# Clint Ramos

Clint Ramos is a Filipino-American costume and set designer for stage and screen. For his work on the 2016 Broadway production of Eclipsed, he became the first person of color to win the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play.
Ramos has hundreds of credits including working as a costume designer on the film Respect (2021) for MGM Studios, starring Jennifer Hudson, and production and costume designer on Lingua Franca (2019), directed by Isabel Sandoval. He has received four additional Tony Award nominations for his work on the 2018 Broadway revival of Once on This Island, the 2019 Broadway revival of Torch Song, the 2020 Broadway revival of The Rose Tattoo, and Slave Play (nominated for Set Design).
He was costume director for the 2013 worldwide premiere production at New York's Public Theater of the David Byrne and Fatboy Slim disco-pop musical Here Lies Love and he reprised that role as well as that of producer in the 2023 Broadway revival.

## Professional background

Born in Cebu, Philippines, Ramos studied Theatre Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He got involved in costume design through the university's theatre society, Dulaang UP. He moved to the United States in 1993 where he was awarded a scholarship to NYU Tisch, going on to graduate with a Master of Fine Arts in Design in 1997.
Ramos has given lectures at NYU Tisch and Fordham University, where he was Head of Theater Design.
In 2022, he was featured in the book 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre, with a profile written by theatre scholar Jimmy A. Noriega.

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
| 2010 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Costume Design | So Help Me God | Nominated |
| 2010 | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Costume Design | So Help Me God | Won |
| 2013 | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Costume Design | Wild With Happy | Nominated |
| 2013 | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Scenic Design | Wild With Happy | Won |
| 2013 | OBIE Award | Sustained Achievement in Design | Body of Work | Won |
| 2014 | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Costume Design | Here Lies Love | Won |
| 2014 | Helen Hayes Award | Outstanding Set Design | Appropriate | Won |
| 2016 | Tony Award | Best Costume Design in a Play | Eclipsed | Won |
| 2018 | Tony Award | Best Costume Design in a Musical | Once on This Island | Nominated |
| 2018 | Outer Critics Circle Award | Costume Design in a Musical | Once on This Island | Nominated |
| 2018 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical | Once on This Island | Nominated |
| 2019 | Tony Award | Best Costume Design in a Play | Torch Song | Nominated |
| 2019 | OBIE Award | Achievement in Scenic Design | Wild Goose Dreams | Won |
| 2020 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical | Soft Power | Nominated |
| 2020 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play | Grand Horizons | Won |
| 2020 | Outer Critics Award | Outstanding Scenic Design for a Play | Grand Horizons | Won |
| 2020 | United States Artists | 2020 Fellow for Theatre | Body of Work | Recipient |
| 2020 | Tony Award | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Slave Play | Nominated |
| 2020 | Tony Award | Best Costume Design in a Play | The Rose Tattoo | Nominated |
| 2023 | Tony Award | Best Costume Design in a Musical | KPOP | Nominated |