JENNY NUTTING KELCHEN
Costume Design & Academic CV
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Education
M.F.A.
B.A.
Costume Design, Department of Theatre Arts
University of Iowa
Thesis: Coloring the world of the stage: three years of realized costume design
2004
Studio Art: Painting, Department of Art
Theatre Minor, Department of Theatre
2000
University of Northern Iowa
Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Academic Experience
Resident Costume Designer, Costume Shop Supervisor, & Lecturer in Theatre, Cornell College 2005-14
Visiting Assistant Professor (sabbatical replacement for two colleagues) in Theatre, Cornell College 2008-09, 2009-10
Teach 2-3 courses annually: Costume Construction, Costume Design, Stage Makeup, Fundamentals of Theatre Design
Topics courses: Advanced Undergarment Construction for the French Aristocracy, Advanced Stage Makeup: Airbrush
Supervise 2-4 independent study courses annually, topics including: Mask-making, Dyeing, Patterning, Advanced Stage
Makeup projects, Costume Construction or Stage Makeup class shop/teaching assistant, Corset-making, Mask-Making, Costume
History, Portfolio Development, Design for the Main-stage, Fashion Design
Academic Duties include: Maintain and supervise costume shop and student staff, direct and execute costume builds
for all main-stage productions, Design or supervise student designers for 3-4 main-stage productions, Member of four
departmental search committees, (Informal) advising of design and production students
Visiting Assistant Professor
Taught course: Elements of Design
The University of Iowa
Visiting Lecturer
Cornell College
Taught course: Costume Construction, Mount Vernon, IA
2004
2004
Teaching Assistant
The University of Iowa
2002-04
Assisted and solo-taught five sections of Elements of Design (with Professors Bryon Winn and James Albert)
Professional Development
USITT Member and conference attendance in 2003, 2007, 2010
Recipient of McConnell Travel Grant Award (2011): Kryolan Training Facilities Airbrush Makeup Workshop,
Chicago, IL (Certification under two-day workshop with Diana Alvarez) ($725)
Recipient of McConnell Travel Grant Award (2010): USITT Conference in Kansas City, MO ($990)
Recipient of McConnell Travel Grant Award (2008): USITT Costume Symposium in Fabric Modification,
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, three-day workshop ($1100)
Portfolio Evaluator, University of Northern Iowa Department of Theatre D &P portfolio reviews (2004, 2011)
Professional Costume Design Experience
Cornell College
Almost, Maine
The Elephant Man
Cloud 9
Avenue Q
Romeo & Juliet
In the Next Room/The Vibrator Play
The Pirates of Penzance
Electra (Frank McGuiness)
Akarui (A new play by Jen Silverman)
Eurydice
Cabaret
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
A Lie of the Mind
As Bees in Honey Drown
Marat/Sade
Triple Shot: 3 operettas
Peach Blood (world premiere by Holli Gipson)
Equus
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sweeney Todd
Director
Ron Clark
Jim VanValen
Janeve West
Jim Van Valen
Ron Clark
Saffron Henke
Steven Smeltzer
Mark Hunter
Mark Hunter
Mark Hunter
Jim Van Valen
Mark Hunter
Jim Van Valen
Ron Clark
Mark Hunter
Kaia Monroe
Mark Hunter
Ron Clark
Ron Clark
Kaia Monroe
Year
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2011
2010
2010
2009
2009
2008
2008
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
2006
2006
Iowa Summer Repertory Theatre
Woman in Black
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
I Do! I Do!
Mauritius
The Scene
Fuddy Meers
Rabbit Hole
Wonder of the World
Red Herring
Incorruptible
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Postmortem
What I Did Last Summer
The Real Thing
Mary Beth Easley
Mary Beth Easley
Nathan Halvorson
Eric Forsythe
Brandon Bruce
Sean Paul Bryan
Mary Beth Easley
Eric Forsythe
Mary Beth Easley
Rachel Edwards Harvith
Rachel Edwards Harvith
John Cameron
Eric Forsythe
Eric Forsythe
2012
2011
2011
2010
2010
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
Hancher /Working Group Theatre (at Riverside Theatre)
Mayberry
Sean Christopher Lewis
2012
Old Creamery Theatre Company
Busybody
Blithe Spirit
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2012
2010
2010
Joe Nassif
Tom Milligan
Sean Christopher Lewis
Riverside Theatre
The Complete Works of WS Shakespeare Abridged (Revised) Ron Clark
The Exit Interview (Rolling world premiere)
Ron Clark
All My Sons (Riverside 30thanniversary production)
Mark Hunter
2014
2013
2011
Riverside Theatre (co-productions with Cornell College)
Birth Witches (premiere by Jennifer Fawcett)
Leda Hoffmann
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Ron Clark
The Diary of Anne Frank
Mark Hunter
The Long Christmas Ride Home
Mark Hunter
Prosperity (world premiere by Keith Huff)
Mark Hunter
Big Love
Mark Hunter
2013
2011
2009
2007
2005
2005
La MaMa Etc. (Off-Broadway)
Klub Ka: The Blues Legend (premiere by Jim Hatch)
Tisch Jones
2004
The Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis)
Honk! The Ugly Duckling Musical
Amber Waves
Asst. to David Zinn
Asst. to Louisa Thompson
2003
2003
The University of Iowa
The Book of Liz
The Good Person of Setzuan
Far Away
The Flea in Her Ear
Klub Ka (University of Iowa Partnership production)
A Yellow Fever (Iowa New Play Festival by Joe Hiatt)
O Pioneers!
Anthony Nelson
Carol MacVey
Alan MacVey
Eric Forsythe
Tisch Jones
Kristin Horton
Asst. to Dan Nemteanu
2009
2004
2004
2003
2002
2002
2001
The University of Northern Iowa
Our Town
The Rose of Treason
Memoirs of the Warsaw Uprising
Richard Glockner
Asst. to Carol Colburn
Asst. to Amy Rohrberg
2005
2001
2000
Grinnell College
Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards
Lesley Delmenico
2005
Coe College
Bat Boy: The Musical
Boston Marriage
Dennis Barnett
Steven Marc Weiss
2004
2003
Related Experience:
Costume Shop Manager
Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival
2009
Oversaw shop of three staff and four interns for the construction of A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Richard III
Freelance Illustrator
Curriculum Associates, Iowa City branch
2011-13
Created original spot art and black & white illustrations for test preparation books for educational publisher
Freelance Illustrator
Buckledown Publishing, Iowa City branch
2010
Created original spot art and black & white illustrations for test preparation books for educational publisher
Costume Shop Assistant
The University of Iowa
2001-05
Assisted in the building of costumes and costume crafts for all main-stage productions
Design Assistant & Stitcher
The Children's Theatre Company
2003
MFA Design Internship in Minneapolis, MN–-Assisted professional designers in production
Staff Stitcher
The Santa Fe Opera
2002
Constructed costumes in team setting for four-production opera season in Santa Fe, NM
Technical Assistant
University of Northern Iowa
1999-01
Assisted in the building of costumes and costume crafts for all mainstage productions
Student Assistant
Art & Music Collection, Rod Library
1997-00
Maintained collection, circulation, and special projects for the University of Northern Iowa library
Costume Assistant
Interlochen Center for the Arts
2000
Assisted in the building of costumes for three mainstage productions and coordinated costumes for the junior high
productions for a prestigious Summer Arts Institute in Interlochen, MI