Diana Eden - Hollywood based Costume Designer




				Designer Current Show: Passions __Other Experience: TV & Film \|_Stage Stage
				Diana started designing plays even before she got her first break in TV and film. Her earliest works include:
				In the Boom Boom Room, starring Jill Clayburgh and Ron Silver. I was impressed with Jill's dedication to getting the character exactly right, even if it meant giving up personal vanity. She arrived early for rehearsals, and wanted to work through the lunch break.

				Recent Productions :
				Steel Magnolias, Starring Karen Valentine, Beth Grant, Ruta Lee and Kathryn Joosten. This project was great fun - we had lots of laughs with the 6 actresses, and the big hair! Variety's review commented on the..." parade of stunningly over-the-top Diana Eden outfits"

				One Slight Hitch The Falcon Theatre, starring Michael Lerned and Granville Van Dusen. This play re-united me with comedian/actor/author Lewis Black, whom I had costumed some years ago for a television pilot.

				The Grapes of Wrath West Coast Ensemble When John Steinbeck published this masterpiece in 1939, it captured the suffering of the Great Depression and put a microscope on the nature of equality and justice in America at that time. One reviewer wrote about our production “This story and these people hold the stage from the beginning of their heartbreaking, tragic and inspiring story.”

				A Coupla' White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, starring Elizabeth Ashley and Anne Archer. This was a fun production. I later did it for Susan Anspach, and also Susan Anton.

				She has designed several productions for the Pasadena Playhouse, including:
				Only A Kingdom, a lavish musical based on the story of King Edward's abdication of the English crown to marry the divorcee Wallis Simpson. Another period piece, I got to do extensive research, thanks to the many photos available of these two fashionably dressed figures of history.

				How the Other Half Loves, a play originally set in 1969. We changed the year of this outlandish and farcical play to 1969, which gave me a chance to design colorful and slighly wacky costumes, as befit the period.

				She has also designed a number of productions for International City Theatre, some of which are...
				All My Sons, at the International City Theatre This famous Arthur Miller play, set in post WWII America, gave me another opportunity to design period costumes.

				Swinging on a Star, with Alaina Reed Hall This production, a musical, earned 10 nominations from the Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theatre Awards, including costumes. I lost out to The Lion King.

				Other favorites:
				AND WHILE NOT STRICTLY A STAGE PRODUCTION, a little story about the wonderful Reba McEntire: Country Music Awards While filming my series Family Law at Sony Studios a couple of months ago, I dropped by a few sound-stages over to see Reba McEntire, filming her show "Reba". I had not seen her since I designed her costume for the Country Music Awards, when she won Entertainer of the Year for the first time!. She told me the outfit is currently on display at the CMA Hall of Fame! What a lovely and gracious person Reba is. Even though we haven't seen each other for years, and even though she is a major star in music, film, Broadway, and now television, she welcomed me warmly, chatted to me for quite some time, and gave me an autographed copy of her book.