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Lez Brotherston Set and Costume Designer

Training: Central School of Art and Design. He is an associate artist of New Adventures.
Dance includes: a long collaboration with Matthew Bourne, resulting in: Dorian Gray, Swan Lake, Highland Fling, Cinderella, The Car Man, Play Without Words and Edward Scissorhands. Lez has most recently designed Seven Deadly Sins (Royal Ballet), and Into the Woods and The Soldier’s Tale (ROH 2). He designed, co-wrote and co-directed Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Adam Cooper (Japan and Sadler’s Wells). NBT: Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, A Christmas Carol, Carmen, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Brontës and Dracula.

Theatre includes: Dancing at Lughnasa (Old Vic), Duet for One (West End and Almeida), A Dark Dark House, Dying for It and The Lightning Play (Almeida), Hedda Gabler (Gate, Dublin), Under The Blue Sky, In Celebration and Dickens Unplugged (West End), Playing with Fire and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (NT), Much Ado About Nothing (RSC and Novello), The Dark and Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse), Bedroom Farce, Alarms and Excursions, Neville’s Island, Sisters Rosensweig, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Jane Eyre (West End).

Musicals: Sister Act, Acorn Antiques, The Far Pavilions, Spend, Spend, Spend, Tonight’s the Night and My One and Only (West End).

Film includes: Letter to Brezhnev, Swan Lake, The Car Man, Romeo and Juliet and A Christmas Carol.

Opera includes: L’Elisir d’Amore and Cornet Christoph Rilke’s Song of Love and Death (Glyndebourne) and productions for Opera North, Scottish Opera, Opera Zuid, Holland, Welsh National Opera and Royal Danish Opera.

Other work includes: Victoria Wood – At It Again (2001 Royal Albert Hall and tour), French and Saunders Live (2000 UK tour) and French And Saunders – Still Alive (2008 UK tour).
Awards include: a Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle and two Drama Desk Awards for Swan Lake (AMP), six Olivier nominations, winning an Olivier for outstanding achievement in dance for set and costume for Cinderella and, recently, the Critics’ Circle Award for outstanding achievement in dance.

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