Jen Gillette resides in Memphis, TN working as Assistant Professor of Costume Design and Head of Design and Technology for University of Memphis. Costume design credits include Digging Up Dessa and Bud, Not Buddy at the Kennedy Center; National Players Tours 71 and 72 for Olney Theatre Center; Menagerie for the Washington Ballet; Our Black Death, Trojan Women, Don Juan, and Antigonick with Taffety Punk; Gypsy, Once Upon a Mattress, and Into the Woods at McLeod Summer Playhouse; Porgy and Bess with Hattiloo Theatre; Puccini Plus with the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at University of Memphis; Romeo and Juliet with Tennessee Shakespeare Company; Cymbeline and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at New Orleans Shakespeare Festival; Crimes of the Heart at Triad Stage; Or, Anything Goes, and Intimate Apparel at University of Memphis Department of Theatre and Dance. Credits as an installation artist include Night Garden at Columbus Museum of Art; It's a Ghost Story guerilla installation in Columbus, Ohio; We'll Meet You There at The Front Gallery in New Orleans; Town + Country Kitchen Document for Domestic Integrities at Museum of Modern Art. Jen holds an MFA in Costume Design from University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a BFA in Painting and Drawing with a minor in History of Art from The Ohio State University. She is currently authoring an upcoming book about digital painting to be published by Routledge.
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.
