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Jane Greenwood Biography (1934-)

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. Addresses: Office: 54 West 22nd St., NewYork, NY 10010-5811.

Nationality

British

Gender

Female

Occupation

Costume designer

Birth Details

April 30, 1934

England

Famous Works

• 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 AhmansonTheatre, 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, thenANTA, 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 ActingCompany 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, 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, thenEthel 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, thenNeil Simon Theatre, 1999-2000, then Ahmanson Theatre, 2000
• James Joyce's The Dead, Belasco Theatre, 1999-2000
• Current Events, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, New York City, 2000
• Old Money, 2001
• Also designed costumes for Crime on Goat Island, The School forWives, and The School for Wives Criticized, all Oxford RepertoryTheatre; Abe Lincoln in Illinois; She Loves Me; Sylvia; Death Defying Acts.
• Major Tours
• Costume designer, West Side Waltz, U.S. cities, 1980-81
• Film Costume Designer
• 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
• Movies
• The House without a Christmas Tree, NBC, 1972
• The Easter Promise, NBC, 1975
• The Thanksgiving Treasure, NBC, 1975
• Addie and the King of Hearts, NBC, 1976
• 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 WhiteGold), TNT, 1990
• A Life in the Theater, 1993
• In the Gloaming, HBO, 1997
• Also designed costumes for A Touch of the Poet, PBS;
• Look Homeward, Angel, CBS; Moon for the Misbegotten; Pope Paul
• Specials
• Ike, PBS, 1986
• Lyndon Johnson, PBS, 1987
• Passion, PBS, 1996
• Miniseries
• Hothouse, 1989
• Kennedy, 1983
• 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 Television Work
• Costume Designer
• Beyond the Horizon, 1976
• Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare, 1982
• The Shady Hill Kidnapping, 1982
• The File on Jill Hatch, 1983
• The Mother, 1994

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• American Theatre, March, 1994, p. 41.
• Theatre Crafts, March, 1985, p. 20; May, 1987, p. 96.