Jen Caprio

MFA COSTUME DESIGN, 2003

Jen is a costume designer for theater, television, and corporate entertainment. She graduated from the MFA Costume Design program at CMU in 2003. 

Jen’s work has been seen in over 250 productions over 25 years on stages and screen both domestically and internationally. Her costume designs on Broadway include “The Heart of Rock and Roll” (starring fellow CMU alum Corey Cott), “Spamalot,” “Falsettos,” and “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Beyond Broadway, her designs have graced stages from Opera Houses (including part of the founding team of the innovative Mill City Summer Opera), to intimate one person shows (Benjamin Scheuer’s “The Lion”)  to the small screen (“Sesame Street”). For her work onstage, she’s been nominated for various regional theater awards and the Lucille Lortel award in New York City for Off-Broadway design (“In Transit”). On the small screen, her work in collaboration with Brian C. Hemesath and the Muppet team has been recognized with 3 Daytime Creative Emmy Awards (TM) and one Daytime Creative Emmy Award Win for Sesame Street in 2020.