DSCTA alumnus receives globally recognition for recent film project on the life of Aretha Franklin

DSCTA alumnus, Mr. Clint Ramos, gets globally recognized for his recent film project, Respect, a biographical musical drama film based on the life of American singer Aretha Franklin. Mr. Ramos designed exuberant and aspirational costumes for the film which premiered in Los Angeles on August 8, 2021, and was released in United States movie houses on August 13, 2021.

Mr. Clint Ramos graduated BA (Theatre Arts) in the University of the Philippines Diliman. He earned his Master of Fine Arts for Stage and Film at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts as a full scholar of the Gary Kalkin Memorial Scholarship. He is a designer, educator, activist, and creative producer. He has designed sets and/or costumes for over two hundred theater, opera, dance, and film productions.

He received the TONY Award for Best Costume Design of a Play for Eclipsed, making him the first person of color to win that category. He is also the recipient of two OBIE Awards, including one for Sustained Excellence in Design, three Lucille Lortel Awards, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, two American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Awards, TDF Irene Sharraf Young Master Award, Helen Hayes Award, Craig Award, and other Noel Award, among other honors. He was twice awarded the Ani ng Dangal Presidential Medal for dramatic arts by the President of the Philippines.

Ramos is an assistant professor of design, and head of design and production at Fordham University. Prior to this, he was professor of scenic design at SUNY Purchase and has been a visiting professor / artist at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, University of California Santa Cruz, and Georgetown University. He serves in the American Theatre Wing’s Advisory Committee. He advocates equal rights for immigrants, and promotes equitable landscape in theatre and film for Black, indigenous, and people of color.