Rafael Jaen - Designer, Technician, Author & Professor

Mr. Jaen received his BFA in Costume Design degree from NYU and MA in Theater Education degree from Emerson College. He is a USITT (United States Institute for Theater Technology) and USA 829 (United Scenic Artist) member. He has been designing costumes for over 25 years and he has worked in projects produced in the USA, Spain, Scotland and Venezuela. His design work has been featured in full-page articles in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald and national publications such as LIVE DESIGN magazine. His journal articles have been published  in USITT's SightLines, Theatre Design & Technology (TD &T) and LIVE DESIGN magazines.

Costume Design Credit Highlites

• Lyric Stage’s Urinetown, Fall 2005 (IRNE Award 2006 for Best Musical Production, IRNE Award nomination for Best Costume Design); 9 Parts of Desire, Fall 2006 (IRNE Award 2007 for Best Solo Performance); See What I Wanna See, Winter 2007 (Full page feature article in LIVE DESIGN magazine; Elliot Norton Award Nominee for Best Musical Production 2007); Man of La Mancha, Fall 2007 (IRNE Award 2008 for Best Musical; Follies, Fall 08; Kiss me Kate, Fall 09 (Hubbie Award for Best Costume Design and IRNE Award Nomination for Best Costume Design 2009) -- https://lyricstage.com/media_center/main_stage/0910_season/kiss_me_kate/kiss_me_kate_costume_slideshow/
• WGBH: American Experience Sister Aimee. Documentary aired on PBS on April 2007; PBS/WGBH: American Experience God in America, premiering Fall 2010 -- http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/ 
• American Repertory Theater’s No Exit (Elliot Norton Award 2006 nomination, IRNE Award 2007 for Best Director)
• Opera Boston’s Alceste, Winter 2006 (Boston Globe’s full-page article by critic Richard Dyer) --http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/01/23/an_old_opera_gets_new_life_in_this_production_of_alceste/
• Publick Theatre’s Arcadia, Summer 2005 (Elliot Norton Award 2006 winner for Best Production); Beard of Avon and Copenhagen, Summer 2006, Design for Living, Winter 2007 (Boston Globe’s feature article by Catherine Foster); Travesties, Winter 2008;  Seagull & Hay Fever, Summer 08
• Emerson Stage's Grease, Spring Musical, April 2006, Midsummer Night's Dream, Fall 2007,  Little Women, Fall 2008, Esperanza Rising, Fall 2009 --Look for video on -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30T5i3K-ttw&feature=player_embedded#!
• New Repertory Theatre's The Misanthrope, Winter 2008 -- http://bstageatnewrep.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html
• Speak Easy's The Seafarer, Fall 08 -- http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=entertainment&sc=theatre&sc3=performance&id=82402&pf=1
• Beaujest's The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde, Tennessee Williams Provincetown Festival, Fall 2009 (Hubbie Award for Best Costume Design and IRNE Award Nomination for Best Costume Design 2009 and IRNE Award 2009 for Best Visiting Production) http://beaujest.com/