Leo Kulaš

Costume designer Leo Kulaš studied costume and fashion design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and created his first costume designs in 1983. Since then, he has designed costumes for over 200 theatre, opera, film, and television productions across Europe. Kulaš has worked with renowned directors and prestigious institutions, including the Staatsoper Hannover, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Landestheater Linz, Vienna State Opera, Latvian National Opera, and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

For The Divine Comedy at the Slovenian National Theatre Maribor, Kulaš was awarded the Maribor Theatre Festival Award and the Prešeren Fund Award. In 2008, he received the Maribor Theatre Festival Award for Das Käthchen von Heilbronn in Ljubljana. Most recently, in 2020, he designed costumes for the musical Les Misérables and the opera Elektra at Sofia Opera.

Kulaš has been collaborating with Edward Clug for over 20 years, creating costumes for Clug’s early ballets such as Tango (1998) and Radio & Juliet (2005), as well as his more recent works, including Patterns (2019) with Stuttgart Ballet, Carmina Burana (2019) with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, Aperture (2019) with Nederlands Dans Theater, and Coppélia (2023) at Theater Basel.