This season at HGO, Jessica Jahn serves as costume designer for West Side Story. Previously for HGO, she designed the costumes for the company’s world-premiere opera The Snowy Day (2021), La favorite (2020), Rigoletto (2019), Norma (2018), this production of West Side Story (2018), and Mary Stuart (2012). Projects that she has collaborated on include Gloria: A Life at the Daryl Roth Theatre, Coal Country and Hamlet at the Public Theater, Life Is a Dream at Santa Fe Opera, Monodramas and Mose in Egitto at New York City Opera, The Crucible at the Glimmerglass Festival, West Side Story at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dead Man Walking at Washington National Opera, Castor and Patience at Cincinnati Opera, Norma at The Gran Teatre de Liceu and the Canadian Opera Company, Orpheus and Eurydice at San Francisco Opera, Blue at the Nationale Opera and Ballet in Amsterdam, and Fidelio at Canadian Opera Company. Currently, Jahn serves on Opera America’s Board, as well as OA’s Racial Justice Opera Network and Women’s Opera Network steering committee; she was the inaugural chair to the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee at the Glimmerglass Festival. Jessica has taught at NYU, Rutgers University, and Brandeis University’s theater arts departments, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Montclair University. She was awarded both the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards for her design of Charles Busch’s The Confession of Lily Dare.