Jen Schriever ’04

Based in New York City, Jen Schriever ’04 earned a 2026 Tony Award with co-designer Michael Arden for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for their work on The Lost Boys.

The Tony adds to the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards the pair have already won for the show.

Schriever was also nominated for Tony Awards for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (2023) and A Strange Loop (2022).  

A prolific visionary in lighting design, Schriever brings a full range of experience to Broadway, Off-Broadway, and opera productions.

Broadway

Schriever served as Lighting Designer on the following:

Art (2025), Glengarry Glen Ross (2025), Eureka Day (2024), Mother Play (2024), Death of a Salesman (2023), 1776 (2023), A Strange Loop (2023), Birthday Candles (2022), Lackawanna Blues (2021, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre), Grand Horizons (2020, Second Stage, Helen Hayes Theater), What the Constitution Means to Me (2019, Second Stage, Helen Hayes Theater), Lifespan of a Fact (2018, Studio 54), Eclipsed (2016, Golden Theater), and John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown (Lyceum Theater and for HBO).

Off-Broadway

Power Strip (LCT 3), A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons), Superhero (Second Stage), Thom Pain, Night is a Room (Signature), Collective Rage, School Girls…. (MCC), Usual Girls, Bobbie Clearly, On the Exhale (Roundabout), Dan Cody’s Yacht, In the Body of the World (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Amateurs (Vineyard);Strange Interlude (Transport Group), The Moors (Playwrights Realm), Eclipsed, ToasT, and A Second Chance (The Public).

Opera

Ipehgenia (Tour); Pearl Fishers (Metropolitan Opera); Die Fledermaus (Metropolitan Opera); La Traviata, Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mariinsky, Russia) and Pearl Fishers (ENO, London).

Schriever currently serves as a lecturer in the Theatre Design/Technology program.