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Martin Pakledinaz (1953 – 2012) is an award-winning costume designer for stage, television, and film. He won Tony Awards for Thoroughly Modern Millie and the 2000 revival of Kiss Me Kate, which also earned him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design. His extensive Broadway credits include Grease, The Pirate Queen, The Pajama Game, The Trip to Bountiful, Wonderful Town, The Boys From Syracuse, The Diary Of Anne Frank, A Year With Frog And Toad, The Life, Anna Christie, The Father, Golden Child, and the current production of Anything Goes. His off-Broadway work includes Two Gentlemen of Verona, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, Kimberly Akimbo, Give Me Your Answer Do, Juvenalia, The Misanthrope, Kevin Kline’s Hamlet, Twelve Dreams, Waste, and Troilus and Cressida. He has designed for leading regional theaters in the United States and for the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden. His designs for opera include works at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera, as well as opera houses in Seattle, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Sante Fe, Houston, Toronto, Salzburg, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Helsinki, and Gothenburg, among others.
Mr. Pakledinaz’s dance credits include a long collaboration with Mark Morris, and dances for such diverse choreographers as George Balanchine, Eliot Feld, Deborah Hay, Daniel Pelzig, Helgi Tomasson, and Lila York. Since designing the costumes for Kent Stowell’s Cinderella in 1994, he has had an excellent creative relationship with Pacific Northwest Ballet. In 1995, he designed new costumes for Mr. Stowell’s Zirkus Weill. In 1997, with the approval of The George Balanchine Trust, PNB commissioned Mr. Pakledinaz to re-design the entire production of George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream—a “first” for a Balanchine story ballet.