LEO KULAŠ, Slovenian set and costume designer, graduated in Painting/Costume Design from the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Working across the countries of the former Yugoslavia, he has created more than 150 costume designs for theatre, ballet and opera productions, receiving numerous awards and prizes. He has been a regular guest costume designer at Theater an der Ruhr (Germany), and Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana (Italy). Throughout his career, he has been working on the staging of classical operas and plays in theatres, operas and ballet companies in Dortmund, Hamburg, Dresden, Sofia, Linz, Hannover, Zürich, Antwerp, Perth, etc. Has regularly worked with the choreographer Edward Clug. Kulaš has created costume design for the ballets Peer Gynt and Romeo and Juliet at the Latvian National Opera and Ballet.