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. This season her work can also be seen on Broadway in the new musicals Schmigadoon! with designer Linda Cho and The Lost Boys with costume designs by Ryan Park, as well as The Great Gatsby (Broadway, US Tour, and South Korean productions- also designed by Linda Cho).

She is also 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 and has been the international associate for Bob Crowley's Tony-winning An American in Paris with productions on Broadway, a National Tour, Australia, and most recently at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland.

Other Broadway associate credits include this season's The Queen of Versailles designed by Christian Cowen, the Des McAnuff directed The Who's Tommy designed by Sarafina Bush, 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. 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 (also nominated for a Tony Award for 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 Productions (TV), Happy Feet Productions, and others.

As assistant/associate costume designer, her work has been seen on the stages of Broadway's Six, The Lost Boys, Schmigadoon!, Queen of Versailles, The Who's Tommy, Spamalot, Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, The Great Gatsby, Be More Chill, An American in Paris, School of Rock, Carousel, The Cher Show, The Play That Goes Wrong, Once Upon a One More Time, The Grand Théâtre de Genève, 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.

Check out the 'Upcoming' section of her website for even more news!