Jenny Whyte is a performance designer and visual artist. She specialises in costume, set, prop and theatrical makeup design. She is also a theatre design lecturer at MTU Cork School of Music.
Jenny’s most recent productions include set design for Light Falls (MTU Cork School of Music); set and costume design for The Hare (Once Off Productions, originally developed with support from the Abbey Theatre and Cairde Sligo Arts Festival); set, costume and prop design for Built on Bridges (Helga Deasy Dance / Dance Cork Firkin Crane); costume design for Cura (Helga Deasy Dance / Dance Cork Firkin Crane); prop maker for Morrígan (Cork Opera House / The Everyman); scenic artist for THE WAKEFIRES (ANU Productions); art director / set designer for Meadowlands (Netflix / Sandpaper Films); costume design for Humans: A Robot Musical (Graffiti Theatre / The Everyman) and design assistant for Heart of a Dog (The Everyman / Dublin Theatre Festival), which was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Costume Design in 2022.
Other credits include costume design for Earthquakes in London (MTU Cork School of Music), Bláthanna (ScareFlowers) and Tall Tail (ALSA Productions).