Lez Brotherston
Designer
As an associate artist of New Adventures: 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.
Other credits: Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Starstruck (design and additional scenario); The Secret Theatre (design and co-creative direction); The Snow Queen; The Nutcracker (Scottish Ballet); Le Fantôme de l'opéra; Hamlet (Shanghai Ballet); The Seven Deadly Sins (Royal Ballet Covent Garden); The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Rover; The Empress; Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Shakespeare Company); Me and My Girl; Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre); Malory Towers (Wise Children); Twelfth Night; Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe); Flowers for Mrs Harris; Show Boat; Pride and Prejudice (Sheffield Crucible); 946: the Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Kneehigh/ Globe Theatre); Oh What a Lovely War (Stratford East/ West End); The Divine Mrs S; Hysteria (Hampstead Theatre); Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; Under the Blue Sky (West End); Sister Act (West End/ worldwide); Women Beware Women; Really Old; Like 45 (National Theatre); Hedda Gabler; Design for Living; Dancing at Lughnasa (Old Vic); Duet for One (Almeida/ West End); My City; Measure for Measure (Almeida) and L’elisir d’amore (Glyndebourne). Lez also designed, co-wrote and co-directed Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Adam Cooper (Japan/ Sadler’s Wells).
Awards: 1999 Tony Award for Swan Lake; 1998 Olivier Award, Critics’ Circle and Ninette de Valois Award for Cinderella.
Lez was awarded the OBE in The Queen’s New Year Honours 2022.