Herbert Cybulska- Lighting designer
Herbert Cybulska s a very eclectic man! After having studied Theatre, German and Politics at the Free University Berlin, Herbert started his career working as a freelanced lighting designer, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In 1995, he graduated as a Master of Lighting Design at the professional School Darmstadt. Since then, he can boast diversified international experience having directed the lighting design for numerous projects at famous theatres and operas all over the world as well as creating lighting design for architectural projects and events.
Herbert worked in co-operation on several, worlwide shown productions with Helena Waldmann, a Director and Choreographer, and Work as a Lighting Designer for several Theatres and Operas, among these Accademica Filarmonica Romana, Nantes Opera, World-Wide-Videofestival Amsterdam, ars electronica Linz, Landestheater Tuebingen, MEGARON Athens and Old Opera Frankfurt. During the EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Germany, he created the lighting design for the cultural program of the German Pavillon. Also created event lighting design for Chrysler-Jeep, IVECO, Andersen Consulting, Accenture, and recently for Z58 in Shanghai.
Herbert Cybulska received many awards for his work, like the 2004 Unesco award for his work in ‘Headhunters’. Above all his co-operations with the German director and choreographer Helena Waldmann like the prize-winning plays “Letters for Tentland / Return to Sender”, “Lucky Johnny” or “Vodka Konkav” gained worlwide acknowledgement.
Since 1995, Herbert gives diverse lectures and directs workshops e.g. for PLDA, ,DasArts Institute Amsterdam and several Universities.
As a photographer he worked for several publishing houses.