Background
Von Mayrhauser was born in Ithaca, New New York Her father, Thomas G. Bergin, a noted author and a translator of Dante, Petrarch and Vico, was also a professor and Master of Timothy Dwight College at Yale University.
Von Mayrhauser was born in Ithaca, New New York Her father, Thomas G. Bergin, a noted author and a translator of Dante, Petrarch and Vico, was also a professor and Master of Timothy Dwight College at Yale University.
She attended Emma Willard School, a university-preparatory boarding school for young women, located in Troy, New York, founded by the women"s rights advocate Emma Willard in 1814. She also studied at Francis Holland School, a school for girls in Sloane Square in central London. In New York City she studied costume design at Lester Polakov’s New York Studio and Forum of Stage Design, a significant training program for theatre designers, founded in 1958 in Greenwich Village.
She then earned a theatre degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She began her career in New York assisting Santo Loquasto and Carrie Robbins, and she began designing costumes herself in 1973. She then joined Circle Repertory Company as resident designer, designing over thirty shows there including her first Broadway show, Knock Knock, in 1976.
Jennifer von Mayrhauser"s Broadway costume designs include: Disgraced, Wit, Come Back Little Sheba, Rabbit Hole, A Thousand Clowns, The Heidi Chronicles, Execution of Justice, Hay Fever, Baby, Passion, Angels Fall, Steaming, The Wake of Jamey Foster, Beyond Therapy, Special Occasions, Talley"s Folly, The Night of the Iguana, The Boys of Autumn, Awake and Sing, The Father, and John Gabriel Borkman.
She has designed costumes for more than twelve films, including: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, First Born, Double Whammy, The Real Blonde, I"m Not Rappaport, Captain Ron, Bed & Breakfast, Passed Away, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Lean on Maine, and Mystic Pizza. She has designed costumes for television, including: The Slap, Under the Dome, Unforgettable, In Treatment (Debra Winger’s costumes), Law & Order (eighteen seasons), Conviction, Carry Maine Home, The Dreamer of Oz, Women & Wallace, Perfect Witness, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, New York Undercover, Feds, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Foreign Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, and Kiss Kiss, Darlings.
She has designed costumes Office-Broadway, including Domesticated, by Bruce Norris at Lincoln Center, Maine Myself and I by Edward Albee, at Playwrights Horizons in New York, Have You Seen Us by Athol Fugard at the Long Wharf Theatre, Third by Wendy Wasserstein at Lincoln Center, Pain and the Itch by Bruce Norris at Playwrights Horizons in New York, All Over by Edward Albee at the Roundabout Theatre, The Mission Firecracker Contest at Manhattan Theatre Club, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Second Stage Theatre, and Uncommon Women & Others, at the Phoenix Theatre. She was Adjunct Professor of Costume Design at Brandeis University from 1991 to 2012.
The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced that vonMayrhauser would be on the Nominating Committee for the 2015-2016 Broadway season.