Costume Design & Supervision
Betsey Potter
After receiving a B.S. from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. from NYU’S School of the Arts, Betsey Potter began designing and costuming in New England, working for Trinity Square Repertory Theater, for the musical theater and for PBS in Boston. She moved to Los Angeles to design for Embassy TV, and worked on One Day at a Time, Silver Spoons and The Jeffersons. She received a Primetime Emmy nomination for her work on The Charmings and four Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her work on Beakman’s World. In keeping with her interest in working in all the entertainment mediums, she has costumed for the stage at the Kennedy Center, in Abu Dhabi, Branson and Denver, on films around the U.S., on television miniseries and four Super Bowl halftime shows. She is the founder of The Wardrobe Wing, Inc., which she established 1981, providing costumes to film and TV. Potter works as a costume supervisor on period productions as well as modern, and continues to study and teach historical costuming. Her interest in reproducing and restoring period costumes led her to the Costume Society of America, where she is the treasurer of the Western region. She is a member of Motion Picture Costumers Local 705 and has served on that board. She is now returning to serve another term on the Television Academy’s board of governors.
Van Broughton Ramsey
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.
