Costume Design & Supervision

Costume designer Van Broughton Ramsey was born on Thanksgiving Day in the small Texas town of Wharton, best known as the birthplace of Dan Rather and the home of Oscar-, Emmy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Horton Foote. He graduated from Baylor University, with a B.A. in botany and chemistry and later received an M.A. in restoration architecture from the University of Texas. He worked on restoration projects for the LBJ Boyhood Home, Hubble Trading Post, Hot Springs, Arkansas, McKitrick Canyon and South Street Seaport before having a change of heart. Ramsey has six Primetime Emmy nominations and two wins for Lonesome Dove and The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. He received the CDG award for television for The Tempest and was nominated for Sarah Plain and Tall: Winter’s End. He has served on the Costume Designers Guild Board of Directors and received the CDG 2009 Career Achievement in Television Award.