Gustav Ader
Venue Design Consultant
Gustav is a fully qualified architect, raised in Sweden before moving to London to work on performance arts buildings such as Birmingham Rep, George Bernard Shaw Theatre in Carlow, Ireland and Neues Musiktheater in Linz, Austria.
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What first sparked your love of theatre or performing arts?
As a 10-year-old tourist, I was lucky to get my first theatre experience at the most famous of venues in the West End, seeing Singin' in the Rain at the Palladium. I remember being mesmerized by a fountain that changed lights in the foyer, and then my jaw dropping when it actually rained on stage during that scene! I also saw Evita and West Side Story during that visit — not a bad way to be introduced to theatre with that trio of shows.
Since then, my most significant theatre experiences have been watching that harrowing portrait of a woman’s destruction in Yerma at the Young Vic in 2017, and the visual spectacle of Complicité’s The Elephant Vanishes at the Barbican way back in 2003.
Supporting the industry internationally since 2004
