Amanda Jenks Costume Design

A Little Bit About Me:

Amanda is an NYIT-Award nominated freelance costume designer for theatre, film, television, and dance based in New York City and a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is incredibly passionate about clothing and history and loves nothing more than to spend her days surrounded by both.

Currently, she is the associate costume designer for the Tudor-inspired SIX the Musical with Tony-winning designs by Gabriella Slade- including productions currently running on Broadway at the Lena Horne Theater and touring the US (Boleyn Company), as well as past productions including another national tour (Aragon Company), Toronto company, and on the high seas aboard the Norwegian Bliss and Breakaway ships. She is also the associate for the Tony-nominated The Who's Tommy currently playing at the Nederlander Theater, designed by Sarafina Bush and directed by Des McAnuff.

Her work can also be seen as the associate on the long-running comedy The Play That Goes Wrong at New World Stages after runs on Broadway, two years of national tours, and companies in both Chicago and DC, as well as the newly reconceived US national tour of Peter Pan the Musical, designed by Sarafina Bush with a book rewritten by indigenous playwright Larissa FastHorse.

Other Broadway associate credits include Spamalot, designed by Jen Caprio, Be More Chill, designed by Bobby Frederick Tilley II, and in Tokyo, Japan for the IHI StageAround production of West Side Story, designed by Lisa Zinni, which featured a rotating audience and 360 degrees of stages creating a panoramic performance. She was also the associate costume designer for the Australian production of Bob Crowley's gorgeously designed An American in Paris after being a part of both the Broadway and National Tour design teams. As assistant designer for the legendary Bob Mackie, her work was also seen at the Neil Simon Theater in The Cher Show, which won the 2019 Tony Award for Costume Design of a Musical, at the Winter Garden and touring the nation in the 1st National Tour of School of Rock, designed by Anna Louizos, and the most recent revival of Carousel designed by Ann Roth. An American in Paris and Carousel were also both nominated for Tony Awards for best costume design of a musical.

She has designed for Gideon Productions (including all three of Mac Rogers' critically acclaimed Honeycomb Trilogy: the NYIT Award-winning Advance Man, Blast Radius, and Sovereign), Keen Company, Vital Theater Company (including the Off-Broadway Alliance Award-winning Stinky Kids the Musical and the OBA-nominated Show Way), Epic Theatre Ensemble, Ground UP Productions, The Attic Theater Company, Going to Tahiti Productions, iTheatrics, Stella Adler Studios, Atlantic Theater Company Acting School, EBE Ensemble, Gold No Trade, Columbia University's Graduate Film Department, TV's History Channel, Off-Off-Hollywood Pruductions (TV), Happy Feet Productions, and others. As assistant/associate costume designer, her work has been seen on the stages of Broadway's Six, Be More Chill, An American in Paris, School of Rock, Carousel, The Cher Show, The Play That Goes Wrong, Shakespeare in the Park, The Public, West Side Story at the IHI StageAround in Tokyo, Japan, Soho Rep, the New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, Keen Company, The Mint, Women's Project, Ma-Yi, Opera House Arts, Bristol Riverside Theater, Pascal Productions, Austin Shakespeare (in NYC), and Philadelphia Theater Company. She has also been a teaching artist at several NYC schools and was nominated for a 2014 New York Innovative Theater Award for her designs for Ground UP's Rubber Ducks & Sunsets.

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