Javier De Frutos is a director, choreographer, designer, filmmaker and one of the most influential and prolific Hispanic artists working today. His accolades include the 2007 Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreography, the 2011 Evening Standard Award, 2005 Critics Circle Awards, the 2004 Time Out Award, the 1997 South Bank Show award, the Prix de Auteur in the 1996 Concours de Seine-Saint Denis in Paris and the 2017 Chita Rivera Award for best choreography in a feature film for the screen adaptation of LONDON ROAD. Additionally he received the 2024 Outstanding Career Achievement Award at Dance Camera West Film Festival in Los Angeles and the 2024 Best Short Dance Film at the National Dance Awards.

In 2000, the South Bank Show dedicated a full feature to his work which was nominated at the Royal Society Television Awards for Best Arts Documentary. De Frutos also became the first recipient of The Arts Council of England Fellowship, through which he studied extensively the works of Tennessee Williams. 

In the last few years three of his films THE BURNING BUILDING (for Birmingham Royal Ballet), WHOEVER YOU ARE and THE SEQUESTERED DISC have been celebrated in Film Festivals around the World. More recently he oversaw the 10th anniversary of THRESH/HOLD for Pilobolus Dance Company and the long awaited revival of the musical LONDON ROAD at the National Theatre.