Adelphi Alumna Sarafina Bush Is Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Costume Design
Garden City, NY (06/08/2022) — Adelphi University alumna Sarafina Bush has been nominated for a Tony Award in the category of Best Costume Design for her work on the Play colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, by renowned playwright and poet Ntozake Shange.
Bush, born and raised in Brooklyn, majored in French and minored in dance at Adelphi and found her true calling designing costumes for student productions performed in the University's Performing Arts Center. That path took her to New York City, where she worked in costume design and productions such as Pass Over and MJ the Musical.
In her review of the play for The New York Times, Laura Collins-Hughes wrote, "With characters named for the colors of the rainbow (and costumed accordingly here by Sarafina Bush), it has always been a love letter of sorts to Black girls and the women they become, and to the sustaining power of female friendships, from childhood on."
The Tony Awards will air live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 12, at 8 p.m. Learn more about Bush's work on her website.
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