* Jonathan Bixby; Theatrical Costume Designer

Jonathan Bixby, 41, award-winning theatrical costume designer who dressed the troupe of the international Cirque Ingenieux. Bixby’s circus costumes were displayed locally when the Cirque played Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre in 1999. He earned a Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle award for costume design in 1995 for his work on “Sayonara� at the Alex Theatre the previous year. Other examples of Bixby’s work were seen locally in such touring Broadway shows as “The Sound of Music� at the Pantages, “Jesus Christ Superstar� at the Long Beach Civic Light Opera and “Jekyll and Hyde,� “Hello, Dolly!� and “Evita� at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Born in Media, Pa., Bixby studied at New York’s Lester Polikoff School of Set and Costume Design and had a 15-year design partnership with Greg Gale. On television, Bixby dressed the cast of the soap opera “One Life to Live.� On Sunday in New York of colon cancer.