Lez Brotherston

Lez is an Associate Artist of New Adventures. His long collaboration with Matthew Bourne includes: The Midnight Bell, Romeo and Juliet, The Red Shoes, Sleeping Beauty, Edward Scissorhands, Lord of the Flies, Swan Lake, A Play Without Words, Highland Fling, Dorian Gray, Cinderella and The Car Man.

For Northern Ballet: Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Carmen, Hunchback of Notre Dame and Dracula. Other Dance credits include Starstruck, The Snow Queen, The Nutcracker all for Scottish Ballet; Hamlet for Shanghai Ballet; The Seven Deadly Sins for the Royal Ballet Covent Garden. Lez designed, co-wrote and co-directed Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Adam Cooper (Japan and Sadler’s Wells).

Theatre credits include: The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Rover, The Empress, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC – Stratford-Upon-Avon); Bagdad Café (Old Vic); Malory Towers (Wise Children); Twelfth Night and Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe); 946: the Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Kneehigh/Globe Theatre); Flowers for Mrs Harris, Show Boat and Pride and Prejudice (Sheffield Crucible); Woman in Mind, Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre); 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Kneehigh Theatre Company); The Duck House (West End), Seminar, Hysteria (Hampstead Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath); Hedda Gabler, Design For Living, The Real Thing, Dancing At Lughnasa (Old Vic); A Long Day’s Journey Into night, Under The Blue Sky (West End); My City, Measure For Measure (Almeida Theatre); Women Beware Women Really Old Like 45 (National Theatre); Duet For One (West End and Almeida); My City and Measure for Measure (Almeida); The Dark and Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse), That Day We Sang (Manchester International Festival).

Musical credits include: Me and My Girl, Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre), Showboat (Sheffield Crucible and West End); Oh What A Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East, West End), Into the Woods (ROH Linbury Theatre) Sister Act (West End, Broadway, Worldwide Tour); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, Acorn Antiques, Far Pavilions, Spend, Spend, Spend, Tonight’s the Night, My One and Only (West End).

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

Opera credits include: La Colombe/La Princesse Jaune (Buxton Festival), 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:  Dawn French: Dawn French is a Twat (Tour 2022/23), 30 Million Minutes Tour (2014/2016); French and Saunders – Still Alive 2008 (UK tour); Victoria Wood – At It Again 2001 (Royal Albert Hall & tour) and French and Saunders Live in 2000 (UK tour).

Awards include:  2016 UK Theatre Award for Best Design for Showboat and Flowers for Mrs Harris. Best Costume Design for Sleeping Beauty - 2013 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. A Tony Award, Outer Critics’ Circle and two Drama Desk awards for Swan Lake (AMP), eight Olivier nominations, winning an Olivier for outstanding achievement in dance for set and costume for Cinderella, the Critics’ Circle Award for outstanding achievement in dance and the Ninette de Valois award for outstanding contribution to dance.