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Jennifer May Nickel

  • Costume Designer
  • Costume and Wardrobe Department
  • Make-Up Department
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Jennifer May Nickel
"What makes the art of Costume Design so thrilling is the opportunity to help tell a story and bring characters to life. "

Classically trained in theatre, Jennifer May Nickel holds an MFA in Costume Design from Carnegie Mellon University. Jennifer also studied in England at Oxford University (St. Edmund's College: Myth and Ritual in Theatre) and at East Stroudsburg University (BFA Theatre).

Based in Los Angeles, Jennifer adores travel and has Costume Designed film and television projects that have shot around country. Outside of California, Jennifer has worked in Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Phoenix, Lafeyette, and Pittsburgh and is familiar with each of those cities' particular production needs.

For television, Jennifer's Costume Design credits include Netflix's upcoming Cabin with Bert Kreischer, Taylor Tomlinson: Quarter-Life Crisis, Fox's series What Just Happened??!, The CW Network's hour-long drama Containment, the History Channel's series Legend of the Superstition Mountains, TLC's holiday movie The Secret Santa, and Nickelodeon's The Massively Mixed-Up Middle School Mystery, season two of Moon Scoop Production's syndicated children's show Super Sportlets and the The Syfy Network's movie Miami Magma.

Jennifer has Costume Designed pilots for E! (I'm Not A DJ), Nickelodeon (Junior Eye), and Relativity TV (Tribe of the Wild), and CrisisLab (Sexpectations) as well as various CollegeHumor Originals and SMBC Theater's hit web series Starpocalypse. For film, Jennifer's Costume Design credits include Kampfire Films' Closure, Mirrorcore Productions' Wake and The Beating and Noble Savage Productions' Anywhere, U.S.A.

A full list of Jennifer's film and television credits can be found on her IMDb page.

For commercials, Jennifer has worked for Smashbox, Office Max, Quicken, Volkswagen, Subway, AT&T, Advil, Barnes & Noble Nook, Nissan, Chrysler, Toyota, Dodge, Chevrolet, Dodge, Hyundai, Nintendo DS, Kay Jewelers, Lowe's, Bank of America, Bausch & Lomb, Rock Guitar, Wendy's, Big Lots, Meijer, GNC, and Central Blood Bank. A proud member of the Costume Designers' Guild, Jennifer has won the Elizabeth Schrader Kimberly Costume Design Award, The Cecilia Cohen Award for Excellence in Theatre, and The WCDAC Achievement Award.
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    Known for

    Olivia Rose Keegan, Fallon Smythe, Navia Robinson, Oscar Morgan, and Tyler DiChiara in Gotham Knights (2023)
    Gotham Knights
    5.3
    TV Series
    • Costume Designer
    Matthew Davis, Peyton 'Alex' Smith, Kaylee Kaneshiro, Danielle Rose Russell, Jenny Boyd, Aria Shahghasemi, and Quincy Fouse in Since When Do You Speak Japanese? (2019)
    Legacies
    7.2
    TV Series
    • Costume Designer
    George Young in Containment (2016)
    Containment
    7.1
    TV Series
    • Costume Designer
    Fred Savage in What Just Happened??! (2019)
    What Just Happened??!
    4.7
    TV Series
    • Costume Designer

    Credits

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    Costume Designer



    • Elevator
      • Costume Designer
      • Post-production
      • Short
    • Aftermath
      • Costume Designer
      • Completed
      • Short



    • Bert Kreischer: Lucky (2025)
      Bert Kreischer: Lucky
      6.3
      • Costume Designer
      • 2025
    • Sophia Medley in Sexpectations (2023)
      Sexpectations
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Costume Designer
      • 2023
    • Olivia Rose Keegan, Fallon Smythe, Navia Robinson, Oscar Morgan, and Tyler DiChiara in Gotham Knights (2023)
      Gotham Knights
      5.3
      TV Series
      • Costume Designer
      • 2023
    • Matthew Davis, Peyton 'Alex' Smith, Kaylee Kaneshiro, Danielle Rose Russell, Jenny Boyd, Aria Shahghasemi, and Quincy Fouse in Since When Do You Speak Japanese? (2019)
      Legacies
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Costume Designer
      • 2021–2022
    • Taylor Tomlinson: Look at You (2022)
      Taylor Tomlinson: Look at You
      7.4
      TV Special
      • Costume Designer
      • 2022
    • Bite Size Halloween (2020)
      Bite Size Halloween
      6.2
      TV Series
      • Costume Designer
      • 2021
    • The Other Wayne (2020)
      The Other Wayne
      Short
      • Costume Designer
      • 2020
    • The Cabin with Bert Kreischer (2020)
      The Cabin with Bert Kreischer
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Costume Designer
      • 2020
    • Taylor Tomlinson in Taylor Tomlinson: Quarter-Life Crisis (2020)
      Taylor Tomlinson: Quarter-Life Crisis
      7.4
      TV Special
      • Costume Designer
      • 2020
    • Anastasia Washington in He Said She Said (2020)
      He Said She Said
      Short
      • Costume Designer
      • 2020
    • Fred Savage in What Just Happened??! (2019)
      What Just Happened??!
      4.7
      TV Series
      • Costume Designer
      • 2019
    • The Moonshine Boys (2019)
      The Moonshine Boys
      Short
      • Costume Designer
      • 2019
    • Deborah Lee Smith in I Can't Do This (2019)
      I Can't Do This
      Short
      • Costume Designer
      • 2019
    • Mars Thr3e (2018)
      Mars Thr3e
      TV Series
      • Costume Designer
      • 2018–2019
    • Myndy Crist in Wake. (2018)
      Wake.
      4.6
      • Costume Designer
      • 2018

    Costume Department



    • Nic Nemeth in Wanted Man (2024)
      Wanted Man
      Short
      • wardrobe
      • 2024
    • Anywhere, U.S.A. (2017)
      Anywhere, U.S.A.
      6.4
      Short
      • costumer
      • 2017
    • Julie A. Lockhart and Demetrio James in Heloise (2010)
      Heloise
      Short
      • costume supervisor
      • 2010
    • Super Sportlets (2010)
      Super Sportlets
      6.0
      TV Series
      • assistant costume designer
      • costumer
      • 2010–2011
    • Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in 6 Souls (2010)
      6 Souls
      6.0
      • costume assistant (uncredited)
      • 2010
    • Ving Rhames and Danny Masterson in The Bridge to Nowhere (2009)
      The Bridge to Nowhere
      5.3
      • wardrobe assistant
      • 2009
    • Ryan Reynolds, Jesse Eisenberg, Bill Hader, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, and Margarita Levieva in Adventureland (2009)
      Adventureland
      6.8
      • set costumer (as Jennifer Baldauf)
      • 2009
    • Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen in Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
      Zack and Miri Make a Porno
      6.5
      • set costumer
      • 2008
    • Tobin Bell, Cody Linley, Emily Osment, Brittany Curran, and Alex Winzenread in The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007)
      The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It
      5.7
      Video
      • wardrobe assistant (as Jennifer May Baldauf)
      • 2007

    Makeup Department



    • Starpocalypse (2013)
      Starpocalypse
      6.6
      TV Mini Series
      • hair designer
      • makeup designer
      • 2013–2014

    Personal details

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    • Official site
      • JenniferMayDesigns.com
    • Alternative names
      • Jennifer May Baldauf
    • Spouse
      • John-Paul Nickel

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