Set model by Lez Brotherston for Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's musical, Show Boat, Sheffield Crucible Theatre, 2015, and New London Theatre, 2016.

Lez Brotherston OBE (born 1961) is an influential and innovative British set and costume designer, who trained at the Central School of Art and Design. Brotherston started his career designing for the film Letter to Brezhnev (1985) and has worked extensively across dance, theatre, opera, musical theatre and film. He is best known for his collaborations with choreographer Matthew Bourne and Bourne’s dance companies Adventures in Motion Pictures and New Adventures, where he is an Associate Artist. Their ground-breaking Swan Lake (1995) with male swans has received over 30 international awards to date, including a Tony Award for Best Costume Design. In 1998, Brotherston received the Olivier Award’s Outstanding Achievement in Dance for Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella, which was set during the Blitz. In 2005, Brotherston designed, co-wrote and co-directed Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Adam Cooper and has designed sets and costume for many national companies including the National Theatre, Scottish Ballet, English National Opera and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Brotherston received the Ninette de Valois Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance in 2018 and has worked extensively throughout the UK with companies Kneehigh, Shakespeare’s Globe, Sheffield Crucible, Almeida Theatre, Northern Ballet, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Old Vic, Glyndebourne and Chichester Festival Theatre. He has also designed numerous productions for the West End including Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Sister Act and Oh What a Lovely War. In 2022 Brotherston was awarded an OBE for services to Dance and Theatre.