ANN HOULD-WARD (Costume Design) is a Tony Award-winning costume designer whose distinguished career encompasses Broadway, opera, dance, and international theatrical productions. She received the Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and her extensive credits include Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, and The Color Purple. Her designs are celebrated for their richly detailed characterization and sensitivity to period and dramatic context. For this imagined production, Hould-Ward creates a versatile costume vocabulary that allows one actor to move fluidly among the many lives inhabiting Dickens's novel.