Jennifer Jane Tiramani (born 16 August 1954) is a British
costume
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,
stage
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and
production designer
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. Since 2012 she has been principal of the
School of Historical Dress in London.
Early life
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
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at the
Central School of Art and Design
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in
London
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and then received a first class diploma in Theatre Design from
Trent Polytechnic
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in 1976.
Career
From 1980 to 1997, Tiramani was an associate designer at the
Theatre Royal Stratford East
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. From 1997 to 2002 she held the same position at
Shakespeare's Globe
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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
The Sanders portrait is reputed to be one of the few images of William Shakespeare done in his lifetime. It features a middle-aged man wearing a black doublet with silver ornamentation. It also has a label affixed to the back which reads:
:Sh ...
of
William Shakespeare
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[Jenny Tiramani (1 January 2005)]
Sanders Portrait
''Costume'' 39 (1): 44–52. and was an advisor to the ''Searching for Shakespeare'' exhibition at the
National Portrait Gallery in 2006.
Work
Tiramani has designed opera costumes for productions including ''
Orlando
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'' for the
Opéra de Lille
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in 2010, ''
La Clemenza di Tito
' (''The Clemency of Titus''), K. 621, is an ''opera seria'' in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio. It was started after most of ' (''The Magic Flute''), the last o ...
'' at the
Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence in 2011 and ''
Anna Bolena
''Anna Bolena'' is a tragic opera (''tragedia lirica'') in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's ''Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena'' and Alessandro Pepoli's ''Anna Bolena'', bo ...
'' at the
Metropolitan Opera of New York in 2012.
Awards
Publications
* Janet Arnold, Jenny Tiramani, Santina Levey: ''Patterns of Fashion 4: The cut and construction of linen shirts, smocks, neckwear, headwear and accessories for men and women c. 1540 - 1660''. Macmillan, November 2008. Paperback. .
* Jenny Tiramani, Luca Costigliolo, Claire Thornton, Armelle Lucas and Christine Prentis, Susan North (editor): ''Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns (Book 1)''. V&A Publishing, April 2011. Hardcover. .
* Jenny Tiramani, Susan North (editor): ''Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns (Book 2)''. V&A Publishing, April 2013. Hardcover. .
* Alan Hopkins, Jenny Tiramani (series editor): ''Footwear: Shoes and Boots from the Hopkins Collection c. 1730 - 1950''. Hardcover February 2015 (in print)
* Ulinka Rublack, Maria Hayward, Jenny Tiramani: ''The First Book of Fashion: The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg''. Hardcover. October 2015 (in print)
References
External links
Jenny Tiramani authorized biographyJenny Tiramani biography at the Performing Arts, UK, siteJenny Tiramani biography at the School of Historical Dress, UK, site
Jenny Tiramani biography at the Royal Opera House, UK, siteTony Awards Acceptance SpeechJenny Tiramani Talks About Costuming for The GlobeJenny Tiramani at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Talk About Costumes at the Event Dressed to Thrill Dec-2012
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English costume designers
Living people
Tony Award winners
1954 births
People educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls
Alumni of Nottingham Trent University