Clint Ramos

Clint Ramos is a Filipino-American costume and set designer for stage and screen. For his work on the 2016 Broadway production of Eclipsed, he became the first person of color to win the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play.

Ramos has hundreds of credits including working as a costume designer on the film Respect (2021) for MGM Studios, starring Jennifer Hudson, and production and costume designer on Lingua Franca (2019), directed by Isabel Sandoval. the 2020 Broadway revival of The Rose Tattoo, and Slave Play (nominated for Set Design).

He was costume director for the 2013 worldwide premiere production at New York's Public Theater of the David Byrne and Fatboy Slim disco-pop musical Here Lies Love and he reprised that role as well as that of producer in the 2023 Broadway revival.

Professional background

Born in Cebu, Philippines, Ramos studied Theatre Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He got involved in costume design through the university's theatre society, Dulaang UP. He moved to the United States in 1993 where he was awarded a scholarship to NYU Tisch, going on to graduate with a Master of Fine Arts in Design in 1997.

Ramos has given lectures at NYU Tisch and Fordham University, where he was Head of Theater Design.

In 2022, he was featured in the book 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre, with a profile written by theatre scholar Jimmy A. Noriega.

Awards and nominations