- Deborah Newhall has designed costumes for feature films, television,Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, opera, commercials, industrials, and the Rockettes, creating wardrobe for Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Richard Jenkins, Allison Janney, Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Dern, Rip Torn, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Famke Janssen, Zac Efron, Lauren Ambrose, Penelope Ann Miller,Jason Alexander, Jason Isaacs, Jason Clarke, Taraji P. Henson, Danny Glover and many others. A graduate of The Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (MFA), Newhall's film and television credits include 'Hachiko' (directed by Lasse Hallstrom), 'American Buffalo' (Michael Corrente), 'Monument Ave' (a Sundance Premiere directed by Ted Demme), 'The Golden Boys' (Dan Adams), 'Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket' (Paul Serafini), 'About Sunny' (Bryan Wizeman) as well as the Showtime series 'Brotherhood' (the pilot, directed by Phillip Noyce, and season one), 'Liberal Arts' (a Sundance premiere directed by Josh Radnor) and the WGBH productions 'God in America', the Emmy-nominated miniseries 'The Abolitionists' and 'ZOOM' ( for which she received two Emmy nominations). Recent credits include 'Slender Man'(directed by Sylvain White), 'Proud Mary'( directed by Babak Najafi), starring Taraji P. Henson, Danny Glover,'Cadaver'(directed by Diederik Van Rooijen, all 3 soon to be released by Screen Gems/Sony Pictures. For the theater, Newhall's designs have graced such stages as Boston Lyric Opera (productions of 'La Boheme', 'Werther', 'Lost in the Stars', 'Regina' and 'Tosca'), Opera Omaha(Tosca), The Public Theater ( her work for Oscar Eustis' production of 'The Ruby Sunrise' by Rinne Groff received nominations for Lucille Lortel and Hewes awards), The 59e59 Theater in Manhattan, Boston Ballet ('Carmen' and 'Below Down Under') and Radio City Music Hall (for the Rockettes). Newhall's costume renderings were exhibited at the USITT Prague Quadrennial and featured on the Prague Quadrennial poster that toured the world. As an educator, Newhall taught costume rendering at Brandeis University's MFA Program and costume design and history at Brown University, where she designed all of their main stage theater and dance productions.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Scott Levine
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