Jess Goldstein

Jess Goldstein’s costumes for The End of the Affair by Jake Heggie were seen at Houston Grand Opera in 2004 and his designs for Dead Man Walking have been seen at numerous companies, including New York City Opera. Mr. Goldstein’s other operatic credits include Puccini’s Il Trittico at the Metropolitan Opera; Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, Handel’s Agrippina, and Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men at New York City Opera and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at Washington National Opera. He has designed costumes for numerous productions on Broadway, including Jersey Boys, The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino, The Apple Tree with Kristin Chenoweth and Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington. He also designed costumes for the Lincoln Center Theater productions of The Most Happy Fella, Henry IV starring Kevin Kline, and The Rivals, for which he was awarded a 2005 Tony Award. He designed costumes for the New York premieres of Love! Valor! Compassion!, Stuff Happens, Sight Unseen, Next Fall, Take Me Out, The Dying Gaul, How I Learned to Drive, Far East, Dinner with Friends, and The Mineola Twins, which won Lortel and Hewes Awards. He is currently working on designs for the world premiere of Christopher Theofanidis’s The Heart of a Soldier at San Francisco Opera. Mr. Goldstein serves on the faculty of his alma mater, the Yale School of Drama.