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Linda Cho wins Tony award for costume design

June 12, 2014

Linda Cho during her Tony acceptance speech. (YouTube capture)

By Ha Eun-sun

Costume designer Linda Cho took home a Tony for Best Costume Design of a Musical on Sunday night for her work on “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.”

During her speech at New York’s Radio City Music Hall for the 68th Annual Tony Awards, Cho thanked her husband and children.

“I still find it incredible and lucky that I get to do this for a living,” she said during her speech. “I feel like this show has been the perfect storm of luckiness. … Literally, I get to play dress-up with my friends as my real job.”

The musical took in 11 nominations and won four, including for Best Musical, Best Director and Best Book for a Musical.

Cho, who was born in Seoul, graduated from the Paris American Academy and Canada McGill University before majoring in design in Yale University’s graduate drama school. She learned under noted costume designers Jess Goldstein, Jane Greenwood and Ming Cho Lee and has been active working for theater plays, musicals and operas.

She headed costume design for “Durango,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “Twelfth Night,” “The Magic Flute” and “The Mikado” and has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Juilliard Theatre and the L.A. Opera.