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American costume designer (1922–2011)

Theoni V. Aldredge (August 22, 1922^[2] – January 21, 2011) was a Greek-American stage and screen costume designer.

Biography

Born Theoni Athanasiou Vachliotis in Thessaloniki in 1922,^[3] Aldredge received her training at the American School in Athens. She emigrated to the United States in 1949 and attended the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) in Chicago on a scholarship.

Her first Broadway theatre assignment was in 1959, designing the wardrobe for Geraldine Page in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth; her most recent was the 2006 revival of A Chorus Line. For twenty years, she was the principal designer for producerJoseph Papp and also designed several musicals for Michael Bennett.^[4]

Career

One of the most honored costume designers of the American theatre, Aldredge received three Tony Awards (for Annie, Barnum, and La