CDG - The Costume Designer

66 THE COSTUME DESIGNER | SUMMER 2021 Rob t F t August , April , y Diana den n April of this year, we lost our esteemed CD colleague, obert "ob" letcher, aged , a prolifi c costume designer for both stage and screen. letcher worked for more than six decades and was still designing plays and sketching at for his dear friend, April erry, on Season of ame of Thrones. est known for his work on the fi rst four Star Trek fi lms, letcher is considered the creator of the iconic lingon and ulcan characters. e says of this experience, "I loved it I felt I was truly creative." is adventures are chronicled in the entertaining autobiography, A Trunk ull of ak air or ow the lingons ot Their ook. In os Angeles, he worked in the NC art department in the early days of live televi sion ollywood Palace, The Dean Martin Show before designing numerous T series and fi lms. Three productions he was particu larly proud of are North and South ove and War, The Taming of the Shrew, and Cyrano de ergerac. letcher designed for both ballets and roadway productions six of which he also did the scenic design, and two he produced. e was a threetime Tony Award nominee and recipient of the The atre Development und/Irene Sharaff ifetime Achievement Award. In , the Costume Designers uild honored him with a Career Achievement Award. is lifetime partner was ack au in, whom he met in New ork in . They moved to ollywood, then to Taos for semiretirement. ut letcher never actu ally retired, as they moved to ansas City in their nineties so he could continue designing. T y sp n rly 70y . Photo m rus

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