Biography
Jane Greenwood is a British costume designer born on 30 April 1934 in Liverpool. She trained at Liverpool Art School and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, and began her career at the Oxford Playhouse before working at the Stratford Festival in Canada. She moved to New York in 1962 and made her Broadway debut in 1963 with The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
She has designed costumes for more than 100 Broadway productions, as well as for opera, dance, film and television. Her film credits include Arthur (1981), Tender Mercies (1983), Mr. Destiny (1990) and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). She has received 21 Tony Award nominations for costume design and won for The Little Foxes in 2017; she was also awarded a Special Tony for Lifetime Achievement in 2014. Greenwood has taught at the Yale School of Drama and was married to scenic designer Ben Edwards.
