Don Tagala, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau

<figure class="op-social"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-ro5_04DzBM" width="600"></iframe></figure>NEW YORK – A Filipino costume designer on Broadway is crossing his fingers that he&#x27;ll nab a coveted Tony Award this year.Costume designer Clint Ramos is the only Filipino nominated in this year’s Tony Awards. He designed the set and costume for &quot;Eclipsed&quot;, a Tony nominated best play starring Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o.&quot;I was initially really shocked you know, I never expected to be nominated and then Lea tweeted about it and it put a lot of pressure on me, because like my family, you know masses are being offered in the Philippines,&quot; he said.While working on his current projects at the Tricorne Costume Shop in New York City, a visit from three-time Tony-winning Broadway producer Jhett Tolentino took his mind off the pressure a little bit.&quot;It&#x27;s amazing that we&#x27;re represented this year. It&#x27;s great. It&#x27;s his time,&quot; Tolentino said.Ramos, a Dulaang UP and Theater Arts alum from the University of the Philippines came to the US in 1993.He knew he wanted to work in the great white way so Ramos went to the Tisch School of Arts at New York University and finished a Master&#x27;s degree of fine arts in design, theater and film.Ramos, who is working on the costumes for &quot;Frozen the Musical&quot; to premiere in Disneyworld on May 27, said, he accepted the project because of the diversity in casting the hit musical.&quot;In this production of musical Frozen, you will see the first black Elsa. You will see an Asian Anna, a Filipina Anna actually, and it’s very exciting you know to just like have little girls, like little Filipina girls see themselves in these princesses,&quot; he said.But Ramos said Broadway has some catching up to do when it comes to diversity. He said breaking into the Broadway as set and costume designer wasn’t that easy.&quot;I think a lot of people are talking about diversity now, in terms of actors but most designers are white, you know. The people who are dictating how this world should look like are actually white,&quot; he said.Ramos, who also created the costumes for &quot;Here Lies Love&quot; said he is hoping this Tony nomination could serve as an inspiration and an eye opener for Broadway.&quot;It also means that I am not invisible in a way. It means that the life of an artist is a viable life. It means that I am embraced by a larger community,&quot; he said.Tony Awards will air live on Sunday, June 12 from the Beacon Theatre in New York City.Read more on <a href="http://www.balitangamerica.tv">Balitang America</a>.

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Pinoy costume designer nabs Tony nomination

Don Tagala,

ABS-CBN North America News Bureau

Published May 21, 2016 04:39 PM PHT

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