During HGO’s 2025-26 season, Paul Tazewell serves as the costume designer for Porgy and Bess. Tazewell made his HGO debut in 2013 as the costume designer for Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Show Boat (2013). For his work on the 2024 film Wicked, Tazewell won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, a BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design, a Critics Choice Award, the Costume Designers Guild's Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film award, a NAACP Image Award, and the Innovator Award from the African American Film Critics Association. Additional accolades include an Academy Award nomination for West Side Story in 2021, and an Emmy for The Wiz! Live. Tazewell designed costumes and won a Tony award for the 2025 Broadway production Death Becomes Her. His designs for the 2024 production of Suffs earned him a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination. Tazewell served as costume designer for Harriet (2019), The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017), and Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018). His revolutionary designs for Hamilton won him a Tony Award in 2016. Throughout his career, Tazewell has earned multiple Lucille Lortel Awards, Helen Hayes Awards, and additional accolades from the Costume Designers Guild. He has collaborated with the Metropolitan Opera, the Bolshoi Ballet, and the English National Opera. Educated at New York University and the North Carolina School of the Arts, Tazewell has served as a guest artist at these institutions, as well as on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University from 2003 to 2006.