Jane Greenwood (born 30 April 1934) is a British

costume designer A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costume ...

for the stage, television, film, opera, and dance. Born in

Liverpool Liverpool is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the List of English districts by population, 10th largest English district by population and its E ...

, England, she works both in England and the United States. She has been nominated for the

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for costume design twenty-one times and won the award for her work on '' The Little Foxes''.Biography
filmreference.com, retrieved 15 May 2009

Biography

Greenwood attended Liverpool Art School and the

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, and then started working at the

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, in charge of the costume department. She started working in the Ray Diffen costume shop in New York City in 1962. In New York, she met and married scenic designer and producer Ben Edwards. Greenwood's work includes designing for over 100 productions, ''

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'' (1963), her first Broadway play, to ''Hamlet'' with

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(1964), '' 70, Girls, 70'' (1971), ''

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'' (1979), '' I Hate Hamlet'' (1991), ''

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'' (1993), and Stephen Sondheim's '' Passion'' (1994).Rothstein, Mervy
"A Life in the Theatre: Jane Greenwood"
playbill.com, 28 June 2008 In addition to her many Broadway credits, she has designed costumes for many productions for the

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, recently ''Accent on Youth'' (2009), Lincoln Center Theater, recently ''Belle Epoque'', 2005, and The Roundabout Theatre Company, '' Waiting for Godot'' (2009), '' A Month in the Country'' (1994–95),

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nomination, and ''

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'' (1992–93). In England, she was nominated for the

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for her costume designs for ''

'' (1995). Her television work includes several Public Television plays for "The American Playhouse", made-for-television movies, such as '' In the Gloaming'', HBO (1997) and the miniseries ''Kennedy'' (1983). For opera, she has designed for the

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House, such as ''

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'' in 1987. For dance, she designed the original costumes for the

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dance ''Night Creature'' (1974). She teaches at the

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. Greenwood received the Theater Development Fund Irene Sharaff Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1998. Greenwood has been awarded the 2014

for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. The executive directors of the Broadway League and American Theater Wing said, in part "She has made a significant imprint on the history of Broadway with her artistry. Her work has not only elevated the craft of costume design but has inspired generations of designers to come." In 2015, Greenwood designed the costumes for the

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debut of

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's play, ''Thérèse Raquin''.

Awards

Lucille Lortel Award The Lucille Lortel Awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theatre. The Awards are named for Lucille Lortel, an actress and theater producer, and have been awarded since 1986. They are produced by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres ...

, (costume design) ''Old Money'' (2001) * Henry Hewes Design Award, (costume design) ''Tartuffe'' (1965), ''The Heiress '' (1995), ''Sylvia'' (1995),''Tartuffe'' (2003) *

, (costume design) ''Sylvia'' (1996) *

American Theater Hall of Fame The American Theater Hall of Fame in New York City was founded in 1972. Earl Blackwell was the first head of the organization's Executive Committee. In an announcement in 1972, he said that the new ''Theater Hall of Fame'' would be located in the ...

(2003) Simonson, Robert
2004 "Inductees of Theatre Hall of Fame Announced"
Playbill, 13 October 2003 *Tony Award, Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (2014) *Tony Award, Best Costume Design of a Play ''Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes'' (2017) * Henry Hewes Design Award, Ming Cho Lee Lifetime Achievement Award, (2019)

References

External links

*
Internet Off-Broadway Database listing
* ttp://americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/jane_greenwood Biography at American Theatre Wingbr>Biography at Manhattan Theatre ClubBiography at Henry Hewes Design Awards
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