​Christopher Brusberg is a lighting designer who focuses on storytelling through the use of style and collaboration. Lighting should always amplify the conflict in drama by carving out space and emotion, creating unique and affective spaces for action to unfold. No sphere of design can exist without collaboration with others, and that conversation is a key to building active, multi-dimensional emotional spaces.

 

Christopher has worked on over 325 productions, which include over 200 designed productions over the past 20 years. Favorite Lighting Designs productions include: Frozen the Musical (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Come From Away and Bright Star (Arrow Rock Lyceum), La Traviata (Annapolis Opera), Io (Opera Lafayette - Modern Premier), Hotel Good Luck (Cherry Arts - English Premier), Burnish/Magenta #08 (BandPortier - Orginal Evening Length Dance), An Octoroon (Company One) Heartland (New Rep - NNPN Rolling Premiere), and a 10-week tour of Alaska with EMERGE125.

 

Christopher has had the pleasure of working with the following companies: 

 

Plays/Musicals: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theater, Company One (Boston), Speakeasy Company (Boston), Cherry Arts Space (Ithaca), New Rep Theater, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Actor Shakespeare Project, Montclair State University, Vasser College, Northeastern University

 

Opera: Opera Lafayette, Tulsa Opera, Annapolis Opera (Resident Lighting Designer), Tri-Cities Opera, Syracuse Opera, Boston Midsummer Opera, Wolftrap Opera/NOI, NYU Opera at Steinhardt, Opera McGill, Manhattan School of Music, The Boston Conservatory, SUNY Purchase Voice and Opera, Opera Omaha (Assistant Designer), Lyric Opera of KC (Assistant Designer)

 

Dance: Emerge125 (Company Lighting Designer), BandPortier, Lawson Dance Company

 

In addition to his design work, Christopher spent seven seasons as the Director of Production with Des Moines Metro Opera, where he founded the Des Moines Metro Opera Design and Production Internship Program in addition to his duties of producing four productions of opera every summer. 

 

Christopher Brusberg holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Maryland, where he studied under Brian MacDevitt. His thesis explores the use of a designer's visual identity to reclaim a sense of shared humanity. At the University of Maryland, his passion for teaching expanded as he served as the undergraduate mentor for uMoves, an undergraduate choreographed and designed showcase, and taught several classes during his three years at UMD. He also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Lighting Design from Boston University, where he studied under Mark Stanley.