Dirty Dancing

Australian Costume designer Jennifer Irwin's career spans 30 years designing costumes for Opera, Drama, Film and in particular Dance and Ballet. Jennifer designs regularly for all of the major Australian companies.

Her dance credits include 28 works for Graeme Murphy's Sydney Dance Company, 7 commissions for the Australian Ballet, 11 works for the Bangarra Dance Theatre, The West Australian Ballet & the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

He has produced the original cast albums for productions of Dirty Dancing in Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Choreographers include: Jorma Notinen, Staunton Welch, Adrian Burnett, Gideon Obarzanek & Stephen Page. These commissions have been staged on all continents in over 50 countries (including performances in the City Centre, New York, The Kennedy Centre, Washington & the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden).

In 2000 Jennifer designed over 25,000 costumes for the 'awakening' segment of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Opening Ceremony, co-designed all the costumes for the Olympic closing ceremony and the official ceremony for the Federation of Australia.

Film credits include: The Matrix, Mission Impossible II, Red Planet, Looking for Natalie Wood, Romeo & Juliet (Opera Australia), Stuff Happens, My Zinc Bed, The Laramie Project (Belvoir), Soulmate, Up for Grabs, Cyrano De Bergerac (Sydney Theatre Co).

In 1984 was awarded a theatre board grant to study at La Scala Opera, Milan.

Jennifer designed the costumes for the world premiere of Dirty Dancing in Australia in 2004.