Leo Kulaš

Born in Croatia, in 1960, set and costume designer Leo Kulaš studied costume and fashion design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. He created his first costume design in 1983 for Verdi’s Nabucco (dir. by Paolo Magelli) at the Split Summer Festival. Since then, he has created costumes for over 200 theatre, opera, film and TV productions in Europe. Kulaš has worked with renowned directors and at prestigious venues, such as the Hanover State Opera, the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Landestheater Linz, the Vienna State Opera, the Latvian National Opera and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

For his costumes in Tomaž Pandur’s The Divine Comedy at the Slovenian National Theatre Maribor, Kulaš was awarded with the Maribor Theatre Festival Award and the Prešeren Fund Award. In 2008, he received the Maribor Theatre Festival Award for Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (dir. François Michel Pesenti) in Ljubljana. Most recently, in 2020, he created costumes for the musical Les Misérables and the opera Elektra at Sofia Opera.

He has been working with Edward Clug for over 20 years. Kulaš created costumes for Clug’s early ballets Tango (1998) and Radio & Juliet (2005), among others, as well as for his most recent works Patterns in ¾ (2019) with the Stuttgart Ballet, Carmina Burana (2019) with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, and Aperture (2019) with the Nederlands Dans Theater.