Jennifer Raineri
Costume Design
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
King's College 2023
Costume Designer: Jennifer Raineri
Director: Dave Reynolds
Scenic Designer: AJ Bonk
Lighting Designer: Dave Reynolds
Sound Designer: Eden Stella
Photo Credit: Jennifer Raineri
One Man Two Guvnors
by Richard Bean
King's College 2022
Costume Designer: Jennifer Raineri
Director: Jahmeel Powers
Scenic Designer: Giuseppina DeMatteo
Lighting Designer: Dave Reynolds
Sound Designer: AJ Bonk
Photo Credit: Jennifer Raineri
All in The Timing
by David Ives
King's College 2022
Costume Designer: Jennifer Raineri
Director: Brandi George, Dave Reynolds, & Alexander "Lee" Michaels
Scenic Designer: Giuseppina DeMatteo
Lighting Designer: Dave Reynolds & John Barrera
Sound Designer: Eden Stella
Photo Credit: Brandi George
Timon of Athens
by William Shakespeare
King's College 2022
Costume Designer: Jennifer Raineri
Director: Jahmeel Powers
Scenic Designer: Alexander "Lee" Michaels
Lighting Designer: Dave Reynolds
Sound Designer: Eden Stella
Photo Credit: Brandi George
She Loves Me
Book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock.
King's College 2021
Costume Designer: Jennifer Raineri
Director: Dave Reynolds
Scenic Designer: Alexander "Lee" Michaels
Lighting Designer: Dave Reynolds
Sound Designer: Alexander "Lee" Michaels
Photo Credit: Mikayla Acree
Antigone
by Sophocles
The University of Alabama 2021
Costume Designer: Jennifer Raineri
Director: Matt Davis
Hair & Makeup: Kay David
Scenic Designer: Maddison Grant
Lighting Designer: Libby Zamiska
Sound Designer: Benjo Verge
Photo Credit: Matt Reynolds and Benjo Verge
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
The University of Alabama 2019
Costume Designer: Jennifer Raineri
Director: Seth Panitch
Hair & Makeup Designer: Angelica Martinez-Gamboa
Scenic Designer: David Harwell
Lighting Designer: Therrin Eber
Sound Designer: Matt Reynolds
Photo Credit: Porfirio Solórzano
Gnit
by Will Eno
The University of Alabama 2019
Costume Designer: Jennifer Raineri
Director: Alex Ates
Scenic Designer: Therrin Eber
Lighting Designer: Jonathan Harder
Sound Design: Brian Sechrist
Hair & Makeup Designer: Grace Pillitteri
Photo Credit: Porfirio Solorzano
Almost, Maine
by John Cariani
Albright College 2018
Costume Designer: Jennifer Raineri
Director: Matt Fotis
Scenic Designer: Cocol Bernal
Lighting Designer: Wayne Vettleson
Photo Credit: John Pankratz
Unrealized Designs
Starlight Express
by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe
Unrealized Design: Class Project
The University of Alabama, Fall 2020
Concept:
I used the phrase "moving through time and space" to motivate my creative vision for this production of Starlight Express. Also drawing from the 'Star' in Starlight, I have been exploring a futuristic vision of the mechanical world of trains.
My inspiration is a conglomeration of futuristic couture fashion, retro futurism, and the space age movement. My understanding of this musical is that it is timeless. It breaks the boundaries of time, gender, and expression.
As a nod to my former days as a figure skater, I am following in the footsteps of the 1997 production and setting this production on ice. Setting the show in an arena space allows full range of movement for the actors to perform and race.
My Fair Lady
by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Unrealized Design: Class Project
The University of Alabama, Fall 2020
Concept/Inspiration:
This production of My Fair Lady is set in 1912 London, based similarly to the original text of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
The costume design is inspired by the painting La marchande des fleur by French painter Louis Marie de Schryver, 1898. His artwork primarily features flower girls through the later 1800s and early 1900s. The image selected embodies a a flower who is clearly worn down and hard-working, however retains a softness to her composure.
The color palette exemplified in the painting provides a variety of colors that range from dark to bright shades and tints, without being exaggerated. It creates a world that is realistic yet optimistic.
The Threepenny Opera
by Bertolt Brecht
Unrealized Design: Class Project
The University of Alabama, Spring 2020
Concept/Inspiration:
For this production of The Threepenny Opera, we explore the narrative told from the deep South of the United States during the time of the Civil War. The quilt depicted serves as the inspiration for the design. The quilt captures the patterns- muted yet varied range of colors- and textures of the world.
Side Show
by Bill Russell and Henry Krieger
Unrealized Design: Class Project
The University of Alabama, Fall 2019
Concept:
The design of this show reflects the dependency between Violet and Daisy. As much as they yearn to be a apart, the forces of the world bind them together, figuratively and literally. Through the costume design of the show I wanted to represent the transition from the colorful world of vaudeville to the black and white world of film. This is depicted through the costumes as they gradually lose excitement and color through Violet and Daisy’s journey to stardom.
Voices
by Susan Griffin
Unrealized Design: Class Project
The University of Alabama, Fall 2019
Concept:
Voices explores universal human experiences through various stages in life. One inevitable experience being death and grief.
Not everyone is grieving due to the passing on someone, but rather something, whether that be a former relationship, a past life, and so on.
The play also deals with depression. It’s interesting to see the correlation between depression and grief. One main thing that stuck out to me was one symptom: insomnia.
Setting Voices at night in pajamas gives off a raw energy. No makeup. Nothing fancy. Just a person’s true element. Though even what one wears to bed can be indicative of their personality, the style and texture say a lot about who they are, their style, what they can afford, and what the function in which their clothes play in their lives. In a way, this is designed to show the ugly truth.
La Cenerentola
by Gioachino Rossini
Unrealized Class Project
The University of Alabama, Spring 2019
Concept:
The beauty and innuendo of the peacock is representative to the fashion of the Eighteenth
Century. ‘Peacock’ is a term that in modern day terms refers to someone who is extravagant and
showy. Peacocks themselves are known to show off their color and magnificence during mating
rituals. The splendor of the fashion of the 1700s is decorated with such heavy use of color, trim,
and embroidery. The size of the farthingale structure that makes up the silhouette of women’s
fashion of the time resembles a peacock when spreading their feathers.