Jessica Kender

BHA THEATER DESIGN & MARKETING, 1997

Jessica Kender has had a busy career on stage and screen since graduating from CMU’s BHA Theater Design/Marketing program in 1997. She began her career as a scenic artist, painting for shows on and Off-Broadway. She then moved to Los Angeles, where for the last 19 years she has worked as a production designer and set decorator in film and television. 

Some of Jessica’s notable credits include Amazon’s “Daisy Jones & the Six”, for which she earned Emmy and Art Directors Guild nominations, Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere” and “Future Man” (Art Directors Guild nominees), HBO’s “The Brink”, Showtime’s “Dexter”, Shondaland’s “The Catch” and “Station 19”, NBC’s “Medium” and FOX’s “Life in Pieces”, along with feature film “Soaked in Bleach”. For her work on “Daisy Jones…” she won the 2023 Set Decorators Society of America Award for Best Achievement in Decor/Design of a Television Movie or Limited Series.