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Costume, Puppet Designer Edwin Hugh Manning Dies at 58

Chicago
Edwin Hugh Manning, a Chicago-based costume and puppet designer for theater and film who taught textiles and fashion at Chicago’s Columbia College, has died, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune. He was 58.

Manning, who went by his middle name, had a background in puppetry and theater when he moved to Chicago from his native Canada in 1979. In Chicago, he worked with the Chi-Town Puppet Theater and received a Jefferson Award nomination for his costume design work in the Center Theater’s 1988 production of The Marriage of Bette and Boo.

A costume stylist and manager at Strange Cargo, an offbeat clothier in Chicago, Manning worked on several films that were shot there, including Backdraft and Only the Lonely.