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Born Kathrina E. Klotz in Brooklyn, NY. Began her career as a costume designer assisting Irene Sharaff on The King and I. She then worked with Ms. Sharaff on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Of Thee I Sing, Do Re Mi, Flower Drum Song and Juno. She also assisted Lucinda Ballard, Alvin Colt, Raoul Pene DuBois and Miles White. The first show she designed on her own was It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman for Harold Prince. During the next 30 years, she worked with Mr. Prince and won six Tony® Awards designing costumes for the Prince-directed shows: Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Grind, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Show Boat. Ms. Klotz's other Broadway shows include City of Angels (Tony® nomination), Never Too Late, Take Her She's Mine,The Owl and the Pussycat, Side by Side by Sondheim, On the Twentieth Century, Roza, Rags, Jerry's Girls and The Little Foxes (starring Elizabeth Taylor). She also designed ballets for Jerome Robbins, Madame Butterfly for Chicago Lyric Opera and Symphony on Ice for John Curry. Her motion pictures include SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE (1970) starring Angela Lansbury and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (1977) starring Elizabeth Taylor, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.
In 2002, she received the Patricia Zipprodt Award from the Fashion Institute of Technology. And, in 2005 she received the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award from the Theatre Development Fund.
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Nominated for Costume Design