“Jenna Damberger’s costumes were inspired and symbolic...”
Jenna Damberger is an award winning costumer designer, a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University, where she received her B.A. in Theatre, and holds an M.F.A. in Costume Design from the prestigious Boston University.
Jenna received the 2018 Artie Award for Outstanding Costume Design of The Illusion at RLTP and has been nominated for the 2019 Artie Award for The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (award ceremony date September 20, 2021). Her designs in Western New York include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (All For One Productions), Hand to God (RLTP), Love’s Labour’s
Lost (Shakespeare in Delaware Park), Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (RLTP at Shea’s 710) and Disgraced (RLTP). She spent two seasons as the resident designer for The Clinton Area Showboat Theatre. She has also designed for Cleveland Public Theatre, Theatre Ninjas, and the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Next Stage Ensemble.
An experienced costume shop manager, draper, and milliner, she has hosted workshops and lectured on a variety of topics, most recently with Emory & Henry College in Virginia.
Jenna has on-set and background costumer experience. She has also served as a stitcher, dresser, or first hand for Boston University, Dorset Theater Festival, Commonwealth Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Ohio Light Opera, Tecumseh!, and Baldwin-Wallace College.
Jenna is based out of Buffalo, NY where she is a proud member of the Road Less Traveled Ensemble.
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“Jenna Damberger’s costumes were inspired and symbolic...”
“...costume designer Jenna Damberger’s wonderfully eclectic design...”
“Costume designer, Jenna Damberger’s short-sleeve, boat-neckline, circle-skirt dresses worn over crinolines... are gorgeous.”
“...one of costume designer, Jenna Damberger’s many gorgeous ensembles...”
“A mash-up of time periods makes for an even more unhinged and unsettling trip. The bruise-hued costumes by Baldwin-Wallace College grad Jenna Damberger evoke peasants who might have populated Grimms’ fairy tales, yet a man alone in the desert (Stuart Hoffman as St. Anthony) encounters ghouls that are strictly 20th century.”
