Legendary costume designer and six-time Tony Award winner William Ivey Long has been accused of sexual harassment and abuse by two different men, according to an explosive new report by NPR.Court Watson and Michael Martin both say they were abused by Long between 1996 and 2002 when they were college students and working on a production in North Carolina called “The Lost Colony.”Watson alleges that Long supplied him with alcohol and coerced him into having sex when he was unable to consent.
The encounter, which he first detailed on Medium in March 2020, left him feeling “ashamed and humiliated”.Meanwhile, Martin, who first spoke about the alleged abuse to Buzzfeed in 2018, says Long touched him inappropriately on nearly a dozen occasions and.