Jane Greenwood is a British costume designer for the stage, film, opera, and dance. One of the most prolific designers in the history of the American theater, she has designed costumes for Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. Her Off-Broadway credits include: GANDHI (1970), HOUSE OF BLUE  LEAVES (1971), HAPPY DAYS (1979), A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY (1979), PLENTY (1982), LA BOHEME (1984), GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (1987), THE LISBON TRAVIATA (1989), THE OLD BOY (1991), LIPS TOGETHER TEETH APART (1991), THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG (1992), VITA AND VIRGINIA (1994), AFTER-PLAY (1995), SYLVIA  (1995), JAMES JOYCE’S THE DEAD (1999), BURN THIS (2002), A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (2002), OUR LEADING LADY (2007), TRUMPERY (2007), TWELFTH NIGHT (2009), MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET (2011), and GOLDEN AGE (2012). Her Off-Broadway work has won two Lucille Lortel Awards for SYLVIA and OLD MONEY (2001), and has been nominated for four Henry Hewes Design Awards, winning two for SYLVIA and OUR LEADING LADY. 

Jane Greenwood was born in Liverpool, England. She studied at Liverpool Art School and the Central School of Arts and Crafts. She began her career working at the Oxford Playhouse in England and, after, the Stratford Festival in Canada, later moving to New York City to work in Ray Diffen’s costume shop. She has designed the costumes for more than 138 Broadway shows, including: The Ballad of the Sad Café (1963), Hamlet (1964), Tartuffe (1965), More Stately Mansions (1967), Hay Fever (1970), Les Blancs (1970), Medea (1982), Heartbreak House (1983), Our Town(1988), Two Shakespearean Actors (1992), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993), She Loves Me (1993), Passion (1994), The Heiress (1995), A Delicate Balance (1996), Morning’s at Seven (2002), Who’s Afriaid of Virginia Woolf (2005), Waiting for Godot (2009), Act One (2014), You Can’t Take It With You (2014), The Little Foxes (2017), and The Parisian Woman (2017). She has been nominated for 21 Tony Awards, winning one for her work on The Little Foxes, as well as a Special Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2014. She received the Theater Development Fund Irene Sharaff Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1998. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2003. She has been a Professor of Design at the Yale School of Drama since 1976. Married to Designer Ben Edwards, they have two daughters, Sarah and Kate Edwards, both in the costume world of film. A granddaughter, Virginia Manning, studying Liberal Arts at Bard College.