the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design when the Brook A Midsummer Night's Dream was on tour in the USA. Harvard University has added her archive to the Harvard Theatre Collection at the Houghton Library. Personal life She married Alexander Jacobs (a screenwriter) in 1953. They had a son. They separated but did not divorce and he died in 1979. She was a very independent and adventurous person. She died 16 August 2020. References 1932 births 2020 deaths English costume designers Set designers Royal Shakespeare Company members Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art People from Whitechapel University of California, Los Angeles faculty