Les Misérables

Andreane Neofitou

Costume Designer

Andy’s highly acclaimed costume designs for the Royal Shakespeare Company led to her outstanding success with Les Misérables and her beautifully researched period costumes won her a coveted Tony Award nomination. She also designed the costumes for another huge international success, Miss Saigon, directed by Nicholas Hytner (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), and both productions continue worldwide.

Andy’s other major costume designs for London and the West End include Gone with the Wind (New London), Grease (Dominion, currently at the Piccadilly), The Baker’s Wife and Timon of Athens (with David Suchet in the title role) both directed by Trevor Nunn, The Far Pavilions, Peter Pan directed by John Caird (NT) and the arena production of Bizet’s opera Carmen directed by Frank Dunlop (Royal Albert Hall). Among Andy’s many international credits are Nabucco directed by Elijah Moshinsky (New York’s Metropolitan Opera), Miss Julie (Athens), the musical Jane Eyre directed by John Caird (Broadway, Outer Critics’ Circle Award nomination) and Cameron Mackintosh’s revised version of Martin Guerre (USA).

RSC credits include: The Changeling directed by Michael Attenborough, Bill Alexander’s production of The Merchant of Venice with Antony Sher, and Fair Maid of the West directed by Trevor Nunn for the opening of the Swan Theatre at Stratford. She designed the costumes for Hedda Gabler with Glenda Jackson (Aldwych, Canada and the USA), Once in a Lifetime (Aldwych and Piccadilly), Peter Pan (Barbican) and Nicholas Nickleby (Stratford and USA, Critics’ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design).

Among Andy’s film credits are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead starring Richard Dreyfuss directed by Tom Stoppard, and Still Life with Roger Daltrey.