Jenny Tiramani

Designer

Biography

Jenny Tiramani has been Associate Designer at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East and Director of Theatre Design at Shakespeare’s Globe. In 2003 she won the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe. She has re-designed costumes for Twelfth Night (for which she won the 2014 Tony Award) and designed costumes for Richard III (Shakespeare’s Globe, Apollo Theatre, Belasco Theatre, Broadway). She has worked with David McVicar on L’incoronazione di Poppea (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, Strasbourg, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen), La clemenza di Tito (Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, Marseilles, Chicago), Orlando (Lille, Paris), Anna Bolena (Metropolitan Opera, New York) and Le nozze di Figaro (Opera Australia, Green Room Association Award for Best Costume Design). She is the founder of The School of Historical Dress, co-author of the two-volume Seventeenth-Century Women’s Dress Patterns (V&A Publishing) and lectures on the history of costume.

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