Jen J Madison
Costume Designer
↓Costume Designer
↓Jen J Madison designs costumes for theatre and opera, and is as at home in a period piece as in a bold reinvention. She has designed classics for Shakespeare Dallas, new work for Kitchen Dog Theater, contemporary plays for Actor’s Express, and large-scale opera for Opera Orlando. She holds an MFA in Theatrical Design from the University of Texas at Austin. Based in Athens, Georgia, she works with companies across the Southeast and beyond.
Costumes have a knack for detail.
Succeeds on every level. It’s beautiful to look at.
Combining rented pieces with new builds to create the 70-odd looks required.
We spent almost a week just distressing and painting to get them looking like they had been worn on the edge of civilization for years.
Costumes stay successfully within the limits of the black-and-white template, dressing Margo in some especially dramatic and glamorous silks and velvets.
Period-appropriate 1940s tweed suits, argyle sweaters and pencil skirts, in what appear to be more than 50 shades of gray.
Jen J. Madison’s costumes do, though. The orphans put the ‘rag’ in ‘ragamuffin.’
Costumes are eye-catching and comic in themselves, from the Jackie K outfits to the 60’s bathing suits to the gaudy beach shirts of the surfer guys.