Jane Alois Stein's Costume Designs include the Off Broadway productions of Bill W. and Dr. Bob for the New World Stages, Persephone for BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Israel Horovitz's Lebensraum for the Miranda Theatre. 

Regional Theatre credits include Adam Rapp's Animals and Plants for American Repertory Theatre; A Midsummer Night's Dream for American Repertory Theatre Institute; Painting It Red for Berkeley Repertory Theatre; A Lesson from Aloes for Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Sweeney Todd for Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Uncle Broadway at the Royal George Theatre of Chicago, and King Lear for New Repertory Theatre. Work at other theatre's include designs for Peterborough Players, Fulton Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Gloucester Stage Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre by The Sea.

Opera productions include designs for The Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Boston Musica Viva.

Best Costume Design Awards: 2024 New Hampshire Theatre Award - Man of LaMancha - Peterborough Players; 2023 Broadway World Maine - Titanic - Maine State Music Theatre; 2020 New Hampshire Theatre Award - Morning’s at Seven - Peterborough Players

Jane was the head of Costume Design/Technology for the Theatre Department of Virginia Tech from 2006-2022. Previously she taught Scenic and Costume Design at Wheaton College for 12 years. She is a member of United Scenic Artists local 829, and United States Institute for Theatre Technology.


 

RESUME 

OFF BROADWAY DESIGN

BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

Persephone (Bob McGrath)

New World Stages

Bill W. and Dr. Bob (Rick Lombardo)

Miranda Theatre

Lebsensraum (Richard McElvain)

REGIONAL THEATRE DESIGN

Actors Theatre of Blacksburg

Looking Over the President’ Shoulder (Michael Anthony Williams)

American Repertory Theatre

Animals and Plants (Scott Zigler)

American Repertory Theatre Institute

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Steven Maler); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ron Daniels)

American Stage Festival

Sherlock’s Last Case (Robert Walsh); Shirley Valentine (Richard Rose)

Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Painting It Red (Richard E.T. White); Open Admissions (tour)

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble

A Christmas Carol (Laurie McCants)

Burning Coal Theatre

A Great Big Wooly Mammoth Thawing from the Ice (Lucy Jane Atkinson); As You Like It (Mark Sutch)

Connecticut Repertory Theatre

Sweeney Todd (Gary English); Carnival (Keith Lee Grant)

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Steven Maler)

Courthouse Center for the Arts

Titanic (Richard Ericson)

Fulton Theatre

South Pacific (Marc Robin); Titanic (Marc Robin)

Gloucester Stage Company

Out of the Mouths of Babes (Israel Horovitz); Lebensraum (Richard McElvain); Gangster Apparel (Alice Jankell); Barking Sharks (Michael Allosso); Three Hotels (Richard McElvain); An Evening of Cole Porter (Ian McColl); The Marriage Fool (Michael Allosso); Unexpected Tenderness (Grey Johnson); ‘Night, Mother (Grey Johnson); The Price (Bill Bushnell); Fighting Over Beverley (Patrick Swanson); The Last Yankee (Bill Bushnell); Two (Alison Summers); A View From the Bridge (Bill Bushnell); North Shore Fish (Grey Johnson); The Caretaker (Patrick Swanson); I’m Not Rappaport (Paula Plum); A Streetcar Named Desire (Sidney Montz); Talking Heads (Patrick Swanson); The Primary English Class (Robert Walsh); Hard Times (Grey Johnson)

Jewish Theatre of New England

Esther (Bill Castellino); Lies My Father Told Me (Roy Steinberg)

Merrimack Repertory Theatre

Auntie and Me (Munson Hicks); The Art of Sacrifice (Charles Towers); Three Songs (Michael Canavan); Everything I Learned in Kindergarten (David Zoffoli); Jake’s Women (Paula Plum); Medea (Ted Kazanoff); God’s Country (David Kent); Amadeus (Ted Kazanoff); Twelfth Night (Steve McConnell); Rumors (David Fox); Shirley Valentine (Richard Rose); Living In Exile (Jon Lipsky); A Moon For the Misbegotten (Jonathan Epstein); Blithe Spirit (Richard McElvain); Betrayal (David Kent); To Forgive Divine (Jack Neary); As You Like It (Daniel Schay); Sizwe Bansi is Dead (Tom Marcus); The Diary of Anne Frank (Daniel Schay)

North Shore Music Theatre

Little Shop of Horrors (Constance Grappo); Sleeping Beauty (Steven Minning)

Peterborough Players

Man of LaMancha (Charles Morey); Our Town (Tom Frey); Morning’s at Seven (Gus Kaikkonen); The Man of Destiny (Gus Kaikkonen); Arsenic and Old Lace (Gus Kaikkonen); Pygmalion (Charles Morey); Always, Patsy Cline (Jana Tift); Broadway Bound (Gus Kaikkonen)

Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

A Lesson from Aloes (Jan Eliasberg)

Royal George Theatre

Uncle Broadway (Richard Ericson)

Stoneham Theatre

Sweepers (Robert Jay Cronin)

The New Repertory Theatre

Bill W. and Dr. Bob (Rick Lombardo); King Lear (Rick Lombardo); The Night of the Iguana (Larry lane)

Theatre Project Company

Catch – 22 (Wayne Salomon)

Trinity Repertory Theatre

The Seagull (Laura Kepley); The Imaginary Invalid (Michael Goldfried)

REGIONAL OPERA

Boston Musica Viva

Eight Songs for A Mad King (Nicholas Deutsch); Heart of A Dog (Nicholas Deutsch)

Opera Theatre of St. Louis

The Boar (Jeffery Karas)

SUMMER STOCK

Maine State Music Theatre

Footloose (E. Faye Butler); South Pacific (Marc Robin); Buddy Holly (Angela Howell); Titanic (Marc Robin)

Theatre by the Sea

West Side Story (Jerome Vivona); Guys and Dolls (Jerome Vivona); Gypsy (Drew Scott Harris); The Will Rogers Follies (Michelle Yaroshko); A Funny Thing Happened . . . (John Neville-Andrews; Godspell (Lennie Watts); 42nd Street ( Michelle Yaroshko); Grease (Gordon Greenberg); The Sound of Music (Richard Ericson); Oklahoma (John Deitrich); Annie (Rod Kaats); Evita (Geoffrey Hitch)

Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire (Michael Bollinger); Guys and Dolls (Randy Allen); The Flying Doctor (Michael Bollinger); Two Precious Maidens (Michael Bollinger); The Imaginary Cuckold (Michael Bollinger); The Fantasticks (Wayne Salomon); Grease (Michael Bollinger); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mark Landis); A Flea in Her Ear (Wayne Salomon); Godspell (Michael Bollinger); The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Michael Bollinger); The Man of LaMancha (Michael Bollinger)

ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGN

Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Good Person of Szechuan (Carol Oditz); Blue Window (Beaver Bauer); The Servant of Two Masters (Michael Olich); The Night of the Iguana (John Carver Sullivan); The Normal Heart (Michael Olich); Twelfth Night (Susan Hilferty); The Diary of a Scoundrel (John Carver Sullivan); The Sea (Michael Olich); The Art of Dining (Michael Krass)

AWARDS – Best Costume Design

2024 New Hampshire Theatre Award - Man of LaMancha - Peterborough Players

2023 Broadway World Maine Award – Titanic – Maine State Music Theatre

2020 New Hampshire Theatre Award – Morning’s at Seven – Peterborough Players 

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

United Scenic Artists Local 829

USITT