Leo Kulaš

Leo is a costume designer hailing from Croatia and who has lived in Slovenia for many years. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and created his first costumes in 1983 for a production of Nabucco at the Split Summer Festival (directed by Paolo Magelli); since then, he has designed costumes for over 200 plays, ballets, operas, musicals, films and television programmes. He collaborated with director Matthias Davids on Hairspray (2017, performed at the Musiktheater Linz) and on Ghost – the Musical (2017–2019, performed at the Stage Theater des Westens in Berlin, the Stage Operettenhaus in Hamburg and the Stage Palladium Theater in Stuttgart). In the field of ballet, his collaborations with Maja Plisetskaya on Anna Karenina (1996), with Jaš Otrin and Bojana Otrin Nenadovič on Swan Lake (2009), and with Irek Mukhamedov on Don Quixote (2014) are particularly noteworthy – all three productions were staged at the Slovenian National Theatre in Ljubljana.
He first collaborated with Edward Clug in 1998 on Tango at the Slovenian National Theatre (SNG) in Maribor on the Drava; this was followed there by Lacrimas (2002), Radio and Juliet (2005), Architecture of Silence (2006, a co-production with the National Theatre in Ljubljana), Prêt-à-Porter (2008), Gledati druge/Watching Others (2010), Le Sacre du printemps (2012), Peer Gynt (2015), and Kekec (2018). Leo Kulaš also designed the costumes for numerous productions by Edward Clug at other companies, notably for Hill Harper’s Dream (Zurich Ballet, 2013), Les noces (Royal Ballet of Flanders, 2013), Hora (Dortmund Ballet, 2017),  Proof (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2017), Petrushka (Bolshoi Ballet, 2018), Patterns in ¾ (Stuttgart Ballet, 2019), Carmina Burana (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, 2019), APERTURE (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2019), Source (Stuttgart Ballet, 2021), The Master and Margarita (Bolshoi Ballet, 2021), Coppélia (Theatre Basel, 2023), Don Juan (Ballet de l’Opéra national du Capitole, 2024), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Berlin State Ballet, 2025) and Castor et Pollux (Grand Théâtre de Genève, 2026).

(Information as of October 2026)