Jennifer Jane Tiramani (born 16 August 1954) is a British costume, stage and production designer. Since 2012 she has been principal of the School of Historical Dress in London.
Tiramani was born on 16 August 1954, the daughter of Fredo Paulo Tiramani and Barbara Doreen Tiramani née King. She attended Dartford Grammar School for Girls. She completed a foundation course at the Central School of Art and Design in London and then received a first class diploma in Theatre Design from Trent Polytechnic in 1976.[1]
From 1980 to 1997, Tiramani was an associate designer at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. From 1997 to 2002 she held the same position at Shakespeare's Globe in Southwark, and from 2003 to 2005 was director of theatre design there. From 2008 to 2011 she was a visiting professor at the School of Art and Design of Nottingham Trent University.
As an expert on Elizabethan and Jacobean clothing she evaluated the Sanders portrait of William Shakespeare[2] and was an advisor to the Searching for Shakespeare exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2006.
Tiramani has designed opera costumes for productions including Orlando for the Opéra de Lille in 2010, La Clemenza di Tito at the Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence in 2011 and Anna Bolena at the Metropolitan Opera of New York in 2012.
| Year | Plays | Theatre of Performance | Accolades | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Twelfth Night | |||
| 2007 | Design work from 1997 to 2005 | Shakespeare's Globe | Sam Wanamaker Award together with Claire van Kampen and Mark Rylance, for pioneering work in Shakespearean theatre | |
| 2014 | Twelfth Night | Apollo Theatre, London | Nominations for Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design and Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design | |
| 2014 | Twelfth Night | Belasco Theatre, Broadway | at the 2014 Tony Awards the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play, Nomination for Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Costume Design |