Greenwood, Jane 1934-

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Greenwood, Jane 1934-

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Born April 30, 1934, in England; daughter of Harold Ralph Pate and Florence Sarah Mary (maiden name, Humphrey) Greenwood; married Ben Edwards (a set designer); children: Sarah, Kate. Education: Attended Liverpool Art School and Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, England, where she trained with Nora Waugh; also studied costume design with Ray Diffen.

Addresses:

Office—4 West 22nd St., New York, NY 10010-5811.

Career:

Costume designer. Designed for the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, under Tanya Moiseiwitsch; also designed costumes for the Metropolitan Opera and City Center Opera Company, both New York City, Houston Opera Company, Houston, TX, and San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, CA. Yale University, New Haven, CT, associate professor of design, 1977—; Juilliard School, New York City, lecturer in costume history for actors; Lester Polakov Design Studio, New York City, teacher of design.

Awards, Honors:

Antoinette Perry Award, best costume design, 1964, for She Loves Me; Maharam Award, costume design, Antoinette Perry Award nomination, costume design, 1965, both for Tartuffe; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, costume design, 1968, for More Stately Mansions; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, costume design, 1971, for Les Blancs; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, costume design, 1971, for Hay Fever; New Jersey Design Award, 1978, for The Heiress; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, costume design, 1982, for Medea; Ace Award, costume design, Antoinette Perry Award nomination, costume design, 1984, both for Heartbreak House; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, costume design, 1989 for Our Town; honorary D.H.L., Mount Saint Mary College, 1991; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best costume design, 1992, for Two Shakespearean Actors; Outer Critics Circle award nomination, design, 1992, Antoinette Perry Award nomination, costume design, 1993, both for The Sisters Rosensweig; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best costume design, 1994, for Passion; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best costume design, 1995, for The Heiress; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best costume designer, 1996, for A Delicate Balance; Lucille Lortel Award, outstanding costume design, League of off-Broadway Theatres and Producers, 2001, for Old Money; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best costume design, 2002, for Morning's at Seven.

CREDITS

Stage Costume Designer:

Life with Father, Oxford Repertory Theatre, Oxford, England, 1957.

Henry IV, Oxford Repertory Theatre, 1958.

The Hamlet of Stepney Green, Lyric Theatre-Hammersmith, London, 1958.

Hedda Gabler, Oxford Repertory Theatre, 1958.

A Passage to India, Oxford Repertory Theatre, 1959.

The Importance of Being Earnest, Madison Avenue Playhouse, New York City, 1963.

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1963.

Hamlet, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, 1964.

Incident at Vichy, American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), New York City, 1964.

Tartuffe, ANTA, then American Conservatory Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, 1965.

A Race of Hairy Men!, Henry Miller Theatre, New York City, 1965.

Nathan Weinstein, Mystic, Connecticut, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1966.

Where's Daddy?, Billy Rose Theatre, New York City, 1966.

Murder in the Cathedral, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, Stratford, CT, 1966.

Twelfth Night, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1966.

How's the World Treating You?, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1966.

What Do You Really Know about Your Husband?, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1967.

More Stately Mansions, Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, 1967.

The Comedy of Errors, National Repertory Theatre Company, Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC, 1968.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Helen Hayes Theatre, New York City, 1968.

The Seven Descents of Myrtle, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1968.

I'm Solomon, Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, 1968.

The Wrong Way Light Bulb, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1969.

Much Ado About Nothing, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1969.

Hamlet, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1969.

The Three Sisters, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1969.

Episode in the Life of an Author, Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, NY, 1969.

The Orchestra, Studio Arena Theatre, 1969.

The Penny Wars, Royale Theatre, New York City, 1969.

Crimes of Passion, Astor Place Theatre, New York City, 1969.

Angela, Music Box Theatre, 1969.

All's Well That Ends Well, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1970.

The Devil's Disciple, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1970.

Othello, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, then American National Theatre and Academy, 1970.

Hay Fever, Helen Hayes Theatre, 1970.

Les Blancs, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1970.

Sheep on the Runway, Helen Hayes Theatre, 1970.

Gandhi, Playhouse Theatre, New York City, 1970.

Seventy, Girls, Seventy, Broadhurst Theatre, 1971.

The House of Blue Leaves, Truck and Warehouse Theatre, New York City, 1971.

The Merry Wives of Windsor, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1971.

The Tempest, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1971.

Mourning Becomes Electra, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1971.

Wise Child, Helen Hayes Theatre, 1971.

Antigone, 1971.

That's Entertainment, Edison Theatre, New York City, 1972.

Julius Caesar, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1972.

Anthony and Cleopatra, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1972.

Major Barbara, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1972.

Look Away, Playhouse Theatre, 1973.

Finishing Touches, Plymouth Theatre, New York City, then Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1973.

The Country Wife, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1973.

Measure for Measure, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1973.

Macbeth, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1973.

The Head Hunters, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1973.

The Prodigal Daughter, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1973.

A Moon for the Misbegotten, Morosco Theatre, New York City, 1973.

Getting Married, Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT, 1973.

Twelfth Night, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1974.

Romeo and Juliet, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1974.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, then ANTA, 1974.

Beyond the Horizon, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ, 1974.

Figures in the Sand, New York City, 1974.

Finn McKool, New York City, 1975.

The Grand Distraction, 1975.

Same Time Next Year, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 1975.

King Lear, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1975.

The Winters Tale, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1975.

She Stoops to Conquer, The Acting Company Theatre, New York City, 1975.

A Long Days Journey into Night, Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, 1976.

A Matter of Gravity, Broadhurst Theatre, 1976.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Music Box Theatre, 1976.

California Suite, Ahmanson Theatre, then Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 1976.

A Texas Trilogy, Broadhurst Theatre, 1976.

The White Devil, The Acting Company Theatre, c. 1976.

Otherwise Engaged, Plymouth Theatre, 1977.

Caesar and Cleopatra, Palace Theatre, New York City, 1977.

Anna Christie, Imperial Theatre, New York City, 1977.

Vieux Carre, St. James Theatre, New York City, 1977.

The Night of the Tribades, Helen Hayes Theatre, 1977.

An Almost Perfect Person, Belasco Theatre, New York City, 1977.

Cheaters, Biltmore Theatre, New York City, 1978.

The Heiress, McCarter Theatre, c. 1978.

The Prince of Grand Street, New York City, 1978.

The Kingfisher, New York City, 1978.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, New York City, 1979.

Faith Healer, New York City, 1979.

Knockout, Helen Hayes Theatre, 1979.

Happy Days, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1979.

Father's Day, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1979.

Romantic Comedy, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1979.

A Month in the Country, Roundabout Stage One, New York City, 1979.

Judgment, Theatre at St. Peters Church, New York City, 1980.

Summer, Hudson Guild Theatre, New York City, 1980.

The Seagull, New York Shakespeare Festival, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, 1980.

To Grandmother's House We Go, Biltmore Theatre, 1981.

Hedda Gabler, Roundabout Stage One, 1981.

Misalliance, Roundabout Stage One, 1981.

Faces of Love, Roundabout Stage Two, New York City, 1981.

The Millionairess, Hartman Theatre Company, Stamford, CT, 1981.

The Supporting Cast, Biltmore Theatre, 1981.

The West Side Waltz, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1981-82.

Duet for One, Royale Theatre, 1981-82.

Medea, Cort Theatre, New York City, 1982.

The Queen and the Rebels, Plymouth Theatre, 1982.

Plenty, New York Shakespeare Festival, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, 1982, then Plymouth Theatre, 1983.

Tartuffe, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, then The Acting Company Theatre, 1983.

The Guardsman, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1983.

The Lady and the Clarinet, Long Wharf Theatre, 1983.

Heartbreak House, Circle in the Square, New York City, 1983-84.

The Garden of Earthly Delights, St. Clement's Theatre, New York City, 1984.

The Golden Age, Jack Lawrence Theatre, New York City, 1984.

Cinders, New York Shakespeare Festival, Luesther Hall, Public Theatre, New York City, 1984.

Found a Peanut, New York Shakespeare Festival, Anspacher Theatre, New York City, 1984.

La Boheme, New York Shakespeare Festival, Anspacher Theatre, 1984.

Alone Together, Music Box Theatre, 1984-85.

Jacques and His Master, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, 1984-85.

The Perfect Party, Astor Place Theatre, 1986.

The Iceman Cometh, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1986.

Carousel, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Opera House, 1986-87.

The Knife, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, 1987.

Ah, Wilderness!, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1987-88.

The Big Love, New York Theatre Workshop, 1988, then Broadway, 1989.

Long Day's Journey into Night, Neil Simon Theatre, New York City, 1988.

Our Town, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1988-89.

What the Butler Saw, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1989.

The Lisbon Traviata, Stage One, 1989, then Promenade Theatre, New York City, 1989-90.

The Secret Rapture, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1989.

Oh, Hell (double-bill with Direction), Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, New York City, 1989.

The Circle, Ambassador Theatre, New York City, 1989-90.

The Tenth Man, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York City, 1989-90.

Bad Habits, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, 1990.

Othello, Delacorte Theatre, New York City, 1991.

Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1991.

I Hate Hamlet, Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 1991.

Adventures in the Skin Trade, Long Wharf Theatre, 1991.

The Price, Roundabout Theatre, 1992.

Two Shakespearean Actors, 1992.

A Streetcar Named Desire, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1992.

The Sisters Rosensweig, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1992, then Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1993.

The Last Yankee, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1993.

Passion, Plymouth Theatre, 1994.

The Heiress, Cort Theatre, 1995.

Master Class, John Golden Theatre, New York City, 1995.

Once upon a Mattress, Broadhurst Theatre, 1997.

An American Daughter, Cort Theatre, then Lincoln Center, 1997.

Honor, New York City, 1998.

The Scarlet Pimpernel, Minskoff Theatre, New York City, 1998, then Neil Simon Theatre, 1999-2000, then Ahmanson Theatre, 2000.

James Joyce's "The Dead," Belasco Theatre, 1999-2000.

A Moon for the Misbegotten, 2000.

Current Events, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, 2000.

The Dinner Party, 2000-2001.

Major Barbara, 2001.

Old Money, 2001.

Bea Arthur on Broadway, 2002.

Fortune's Fool, Stamford Center for the Arts, Truglia Theater, Stamford, CT, 2002.

Morning's at Seven, Lyceum Theater, 2002.

House, City Center Stage I, and Garden, City Center Stage II, New York City, 2002.

Nabucco, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Music Center, Los Angeles, 2002.

Burn This, Union Square Theatre, New York City, 2002.

A Man of No Importance, Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, 2002.

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA, 2003.

The Violet Hour, 2003.

The Caretaker, 2003-2004.

The Retreat from Moscow, 2003-2004.

Lone Star Love, John Houseman Theatre, New York City, 2004-2005.

Moonlight and Magnolias, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2005.

On Golden Pond, Cort Theatre, 2005.

A Picasso, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2005.

Lennon, Broadhurst Theatre, 2005.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 2005.

Also designed costumes for Crime on Goat Island, The School for Wives, and The School for Wives Criticized, all Oxford Repertory Theatre, Oxford, England; Abe Lincoln in Illinois; She Loves Me; Sylvia; Death Defying Acts; Occupant, Peter Norton Space, New York City; Triptych, Irish Repertory Theatre, New York City; Belle Epoque, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, New York City; Our Leading Lady, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, New York City.

Major Tours:

Costume designer, West Side Waltz, U.S. cities, 1980-81.

Film Costume Designer:

Hamlet (also known as Richard Burton's "Hamlet"), 1964.

Last Embrace, United Artists, 1979.

Can't Stop the Music, Associated Film Distributors, 1980.

Arthur, Warner Bros., 1981.

The Four Seasons, Universal, 1981.

(Betty Buckley's costumes) Tender Mercies, Universal, 1982.

(With Lindy Hemming) Wetherby, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1985.

Sweet Liberty, Universal, 1986.

(With Hemming; New York) 84 Charing Cross Road, Columbia, 1986.

The Squeeze, TriStar, 1987.

Jacknife, 1989.

Mr. Destiny, Buena Vista, 1990.

Glengarry Glen Ross, United International Pictures, 1992.

Oleanna, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Samuel Goldwyn, 1994.

Other Voices, Other Rooms, Artistic License, 1997.

Television Costume Designer; Miniseries:

Hothouse, 1989.

Kennedy, 1983.

Television Costume Designer; Movies:

Look Homeward, Angel, CBS, 1972.

The Thanksgiving Treasure, NBC, 1975.

Moon for the Misbegotten, 1975.

Happy Days, 1980.

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana, 1982.

Medea, 1982.

Johnny Bull, 1986.

Liberace: Behind the Music, CBS, 1988.

The Christmas Wife, 1988.

Ariadne auf Naxos, 1988.

Ivory Hunters (also known as The Last Elephant and White Gold), TBS, 1990.

A Life in the Theater (also known as A Life in the Theatre), 1993.

Blown Sideways Through Life, 1995.

In the Gloaming, HBO, 1997.

Also designed costumes for A Touch of the Poet, PBS; Pope Paul.

Television Costume Designer; Specials:

The House without a Christmas Tree, NBC, 1972.

The Easter Promise, NBC, 1975.

Beyond the Horizon, 1976.

Addie and the King of Hearts, NBC, 1976.

Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare, 1982.

The Shady Hill Kidnapping, 1982.

The File on Jill Hatch, 1983.

Ike, PBS, 1986.

Lyndon Johnson, PBS, 1987.

The Mother, 1994.

Passion, PBS, 1996.

Television Costume Designer; Episodic:

"Heartbreak House," Great Performances, PBS, 1986.

"Dialogues of the Carmelites," Live from the Met, PBS, 1987.

"Our Town," Great Performances, PBS, 1989.

"Sensibility and Sense," American Playhouse, PBS, 1990.

"Three Hotels," American Playhouse, PBS, 1991.

"The End of a Sentence," American Playhouse, PBS, 1991.

"Liberace," Behind the Music (also known as VH1's "Behind the Music"), VH1, 1998.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

American Theatre, March, 1994, p. 41.

Theatre Crafts, March, 1985, p. 20; May, 1987, p. 96.

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