Pinoy pride! A Filipino costume designer just bagged a Tony Award.
Clint Ramos, a University of the Philippine Diliman alumnus, won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play on Sun, Jun 12 (Monday morning, Manila time).
He won for Eclipsed, which stars 12 Years a Slave and Star Wars: The Force Awakens actress Lupita Nyong’o.
“The theater has been my savior in the darkest, darkest of times in my life. And I hope for the people in Orlando, you can see some salvation through this real dark time,” Ramos said in his acceptance speech, noting the mass shooting in Orlando, US that killed at least 50 people.
Watch his acceptance speech in the video below:
Ramos was born and raised in Cebu and finished Theater Arts at UP Diliman. He was also a member of Dulaang UP.
He arrived in the US in 1993 and studied at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University.
His previous works include the Broadway production of The Elephant Man and the off-Broadway production of Here Lies Love, a musical about Imelda Marcos. Ramos also worked on Frozen: Live at the Hyperion, showing at the Disney California Adventure Park.
“It means I’m not invisble in a way,” he said of his Tony nomination in a TV interview last month. “That the life of an artist is a viable life, it means I am embraced by a larger community.”
Congratulations!
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