Andrea Kučerová was born in Brno, where she also graduated from the Secondary Industrial School of Textiles (specializing in modeling and designing clothing and theater costumes). She then worked as a freelance artist, focusing primarily on graphic design. She has created a number of posters, books, LP and CD covers, advertising materials, and publications.
In 1991, she began working with the Brno City Theater, first as a graphic designer, and then in 1993, she created her first costume designs for a production of Eugene Scribe's play A Glass of Water.
This marked the beginning of her long-standing collaboration with director Stanislav Moša, for whom she is, with a few exceptions, the exclusive costume designer. She is a regular member of his production team, not only at his home theater, but also in his foreign productions. She also collaborates on a permanent basis with directors Stanislav Slovák and Petr Gazdík, as well as with a number of other Czech and foreign directors (e.g., Janez Starina and Katja Pegan from Slovenia).
Since 2007, she has been the head of costume design at the Brno City Theater and has created costume designs and implementations for nearly two hundred productions, ranging from drama to opera and operetta to musicals, which make up the majority of her work at home and in Europe (Croatia, Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Norway).
Selection of costume designs for MdB
Dramatic theatre: Cyrano of Bergerac, Romeo and Juliet, Henry VIII., In the lion's den, Taming of the Shrew, Becket or The Honour of the God, Oedipus Rex, Three Sisters, Mephisto, Jaques And His Master, Merchant of Venice, Glass Room, King Lear, Shakespeare in Love. A view from the bridge, Hamlet or the Soul and Body fighting, Funny Money, Good but the end sucks, Manon Lescaut.
Musical theatre: West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver!, The Witches of Eastwick, Cabaret, Fame, Mozart!, Sugar, Hair, The Birds by Aristophanes, Spring Awakening, Mary Poppins, Chicago, Jekyll and Hyde, Pope Joan, Blood Brothers, Cats, Nine, Monty Python´s Spamalot, Radúz and Mahulena, Big Fish, Medicus, The Addams Family, Dear Evan Hansen, The Water of Life, Jackal Years.
Proof that her costumes perfectly emphasize the atmosphere of the production, highlight the characters' personalities, and remain etched in the audience's memory is the fact that she has won the audience award Křídla (Wings) for the Most Outstanding Creative Achievement of the Season four times for her costume designs for productions at the Brno City Theater, specifically for the costumes for Cyrano de Bergerac, The Birds by Aristophanes, Shakespeare in Love, and The Miser. She was also awarded the Křídla Award by the Dokořán revue for her exceptional costume design in the 2005/2006 season.
In recent years, she has also been collaborating on costume design with her daughter Adéla.
