Lez Brotherston OBE 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.
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).
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.