Jen Gillette (she/her) is a costume designer and visual artist. Design credits include The Cunning Little Vixen (Manhattan School of Music), Bud, Not Buddy and Digging Up Dessa (The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts), Menagerie (The Washington Ballet), Our Black Death and Don Juan (Taffety Punk), Mardi Gras parade costumes for Krewe du Resistance, Cymebline (The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival), Crimes of the Heart (Triad Stage), The Cunning Little Vixen (Manhattan School of Music), Gypsy and Into the Woods (McLeod Summer Playhouse), Porgy and Bess (Hattiloo Theatre), National Players Tours 71 and 72, and Puccini Plus (The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music). She has also worked as a Costume Design Assistant with The Glimmerglass Festival, Atlanta Opera, and Synetic Theater. As a studio artist, she has presented installation work at The Museum of Modern Art, The Columbus Museum of Art, and The Front New Orleans. She holds an MFA in Costume Design from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Jen is the author of the recent publication Digital Painting and Rendering for Theatrical Design, published by Routledge in 2024. Jen is based in Tallahassee, where she is Assistant Professor of Costume Design at Florida State University. IG @jengillettedesign
When not working, Jen loves hanging out with her rescued standard poodle, playing tabletop roleplaying games, making fan art for her favorite podcasts, exploring the world, thrift store shopping, and continuing to draw for fun, much to the chagrin of her sore drawing hand.
When not working, Jen loves hanging out with her rescued standard poodle, playing tabletop roleplaying games, making fan art for her favorite podcasts, exploring the world, thrift store shopping, and continuing to draw for fun, much to the chagrin of her sore drawing hand.
