Nadoolman served as president of The Costume Designer's Guild, Local 892, the union representing working Hollywood costume designers. In addition to writing the chapter "Designing Hollywood: Women Costume and Production Designers" in Women Designers in the USA 1900 - 2000, Yale University Press, New Haven & London (2000), she is the author of Screencraft: Costume Design, Focal Press, London (2003). Nadoolman has written the first doctoral dissertation in the field of film costume design, "Scene And Not Heard: The Role of Costume in the Cinematic Storytelling Process", and graduated with a Ph.D. in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art in July 2003. Dr. Landis also compiled and edited the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences catalogue 50 Costumes/50 Designers: Concept to Character, University of California Press (2004), and recently completed A Century of Hollywood Costume, scheduled to be published by HarperCollins (2006).
Her award-winning theatrical credits include work for the Virginia Opera (Turandot,, 1993), American Conservatory Theatre (Dinner at Eight, 1992 and Gaslight, 1995) as well as the Mark Taper Forum (The Waiting Room, 1994 and Closer, 2000).
Married director John Landis in 1980. They have two children: Rachel Landis (b. 1982) actor-writer Max Landis (b. 1985).
Nominated for Achievement in Costume Design 1988: COMING TO AMERICA
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