Jen Schriever is a Tony Award–nominated lighting designer working across Broadway, the West End, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, and opera.
Most recently, Schriever received the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for The Lost Boys at the Palace Theatre, a 12-time Tony Award–nominated production that earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Lighting Design, shared with co–lighting designer Michael Arden.
She received two Tony nominations for her lighting design of A Strange Loop at the Lyceum Theatre and Death of a Salesman at the Hudson Theatre. She is also an Obie Award-winner for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design and received an Obie Award Special Citation as part of the creative team and ensemble of A Strange Loop.
On Broadway and in the West End, her work includes Art (Music Box Theatre), Glengarry Glen Ross (Palace Theatre), Eureka Day and Lackawanna Blues (MTC, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre), Death of a Salesman (Hudson Theatre), 1776 and Birthday Candles (American Airlines Theatre), A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre, The Barbican), Mother Play; Grand Horizons and What the Constitution Means to Me (Helen Hayes Theater), The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54), Eclipsed (Golden Theatre), and John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown (Lyceum Theatre and HBO).
Off-Broadway and New York credits include Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) and The Other Americans (Public Theater), Strategic Love Play (Audible, Minetta Lane Theatre), Spain (Second Stage, Tony Kiser Theatre), Shhh (Atlantic Theater Company), Power Strip (Lincoln Center Theater, Claire Tow Theater), Usual Girls (Roundabout Theatre Company), Strange Interlude (Irondale Theatre, Transport Group), Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (New Victory Theater), and Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons).
Regionally, her work includes Uncle Vanya (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Highway Patrol (Goodman Theatre), Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical (American Conservatory Theater), A Transparent Musical (Mark Taper Forum), A Strange Loop (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company). She earned a Helen Hayes award for Private Jones at Signature Theatre DC.
In opera, Schriever has designed A Thousand Splendid Suns (Seattle Opera), Iphigenia (tour), The Pearl Fishers and Die Fledermaus (Metropolitan Opera), and La Traviata, Faust, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia, as well as The Pearl Fishers for English National Opera in London.
TONY Nomination for The Lost Boys
TONY Nomination for A Strange Loop
TONY Nomination for Death of a Salesman
Drama Desk Award Winner with Michael Arden for The Lost Boys
Outer Critics Circle Award Winner with Michael Arden for The Lost Boys
Obie Award Winner for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design
Obie Award Special Citation, Creative Team and Ensemble of A Strange Loop
Nominated for Russian GOLDEN MASK AWARD for Lighting Design of Britten’s Midsummer at the Mariinksy Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
ART | Music Box Theater
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS | Palace Theater
EURKEA DAY | Helen Hayes Theater
MOTHER PLAY | Helen Hayes Theater
DEATH OF A SALESMAN | Hudon Theater
1776 | American Airlines Theater
A STRANGE LOOP | The Barbican
A STRANGE LOOP | Lyceum Theater
BIRTHDAY CANDLES | American Airlines Theater
LACKAWANNA BLUES | Samuel J. Friedman Theater
GRAND HORIZONS | Second Stage, Helen Hayes Theater
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME | Second Stage, Helen Hayes Theater
LIFESPAN OF A FACT | Studio 54
ECLIPSED | Golden Theater
John Leguizamo’s GHETTO KLOWN | Lyceum Theater and for HBO
ANTIGONE (This Play I Read in High School) | The Public
MESSY WHITE GAYS | The Duke
THE OTHER AMERICANS | The Public
STRATEGIC LOVE PLAY | Audible, Minetta Lane Theatre
SPAIN | Second Stage, Tony Kiser Theatre
SHHH | Atlantic Theater Company
WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE | MCC Theater
POWER STRIP | Lincoln Center Theater, Claire Tow Theater
USUAL GIRLS | Roundabout Theatre Company
EMMET OTTER’S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS | New Victory Theater
SELLING KABUL | Playwright’s Horizons
UNCLE VANYA | Berkeley Rep
HIPPEST TRIP: THE SOUL TRAIN MUSICAL | American Conservatory Theater
A TRANSPARENT MUSICAL | Mark Taper Forum
A STRANGE LOOP | Woolly Mammoth
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN | National Tour
ROW | Williamstown Theater Festival
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS | Seattle Opera
IPHEGENIA | Tour
PEARL FISHERS | Metropolitan Opera
DIE FLEDERMAUS | Metropolitan Opera
LA TRAVIATA, FAUST, A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | Mariinsky, Russia
PEARL FISHERS | ENO, London
Adjunct Professor | Purchase College.