Jessica Mueller

Costume Designer. Illustrator. Historian. Educator.

Jessica Mueller is an award-winning costume educator, designer, and historian from Nashville, TN. She joined Belmont University in 2011 and teaches Costume Design, Stage Makeup, Design Portfolio, Period Styles, Rendering Styles, and Theatre Experience, as well as specialty theatre courses specifically designed for University College.  She regularly leads study abroad trips in theatre and costume history for the department. As resident costume designer at Belmont, she designs both theatre and dance productions, maintains a student-staffed costume shop, and coordinates costume stock. 

Ms. Mueller earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado (UNCO) and her Master of Fine Arts degree in Costume Design from the University of California-Irvine (UCI).  She moved to Nashville from Los Angeles where she worked as a stock costumer for the film and television industry, working at United American Costumes to assist costume designers and wardrobe supervisors on rentals for period film and television productions including Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Hunger Games, Boardwalk Empire, Lawless, Mad Men, The Artist, among many others. 

Favorite costume designs include: Peter and the Starcatcher (Belmont University), Antony and Cleopatra (Nashville Shakespeare Festival), Good Night, Moon (Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre), Carrie (Street Theatre Company), Hedda Gabler (Actors Bridge), Metamorphoses (Belmont), The Bacchae Trilogy (UCI)), and Titus Andronicus (UCI).

She is a proud member of Costume Society of America (CSA), United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT), and the International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects, and Technicians (OISTAT). 

In her spare time, she is a quilter and avid scholar of fashion, architecture, and textiles.

Upcoming Projects

Stuck in Elevator, Nashville Opera, January 2023

Mixed Bill, Belmont Dance Company, April 2023