David Nixon OBE

Charity number 259140

• Lez Brotherston
• Carmen
• A Christmas Carol
• Romeo & Juliet

Lez Brotherston Production Designer

Trained

Central School of Art and Design

Companies/Organisations

Lez is an Associate Artist of Matthew Bourne's company, New Adventures

Theatre includes

• Playing With Fire, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Royal National Theatre)
• The Dark, Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse)
• Volpone, Design For Living, A Woman of No Importance, Nude With Violin (Manchester Royal Exchange)
• The Crucible, David Copperfield (Sheffield Crucible)
• Bedroom Farce, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Alarms and Excursions, French and Saunders Live, Victoria Wood At It Again (West End)

Dance includes

• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Japan/Sadler's Wells), co-directed with Adam Cooper
• A Soldier's Tale (ROH 2)
• Edward Scissorhands (New Adventures)
• Play Without Words (RNT/New Adventures)
• The Car Man, Cinderella, Swan Lake, Highland Fling (Adventures In Motion Pictures)
• A ten year association with NBT including Dracula, Romeo & Juliet, Carmen, Giselle and Swan Lake

Opera includes

• Masquerade (Opera North)
• L'Elisir d'Amore (Grange Park Opera)
• La Somnambula (Teatro Municipale, Rio de Janeiro)
• Hansel and Gretel (Opera Zuid/Opera Northern Ireland)
• Cunning Little Vixen, Ariadne auf Naxos, Werther (Opera Zuid)
• Falstaff (Teatro Bellini Sicily and Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen)

Musicals include

• West End
  • Far Pavilions
  • Acorn Antiques
  • Tonight's the Night
  • My One and Only
  • Spend Spend Spend
• Almeida Theatre
  • Brighton Rock

Film includes

Letter to Brezhnev, Swan Lake, The Car Man

Career Highlights

• Tony Award for Swan Lake (AMP)
• Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for Set and Costume for Cinderella and most recently a Critics' Circle Award for his outstanding achievement in design for dance

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