THEATER, TELEVISION AND CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT COSTUME DESIGNER

Jen Caprio’s work has been seen on stages and screen both domestically and internationally. Her costume designs have been seen in over 250 productions over 25 years on stages ranging from Broadway (Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) to 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.

Jen was born and raised in Chatham, NJ and received her BFA from Ithaca College and her Master’s from Carnegie Mellon University.

When she’s not in a shop or studio making performers feel their best, Jen can be found renovating her Arts and Crafts Cottage in upstate NY where she lives with her tiny Toy Fox Terrier, Potato.