Fabrice Kebour

French lighting designer Fabrice Kebour has worked in dance, the spoken theatre, musicals and operas and has designed the lighting for more than 250 productions. His career began in New York, where he worked on Broadway with a number of distinguished lighting designers and became a member of United Scenic Artists. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a lighting designer for Cameron Mackintosh Productions, creating lighting designs for Les Misérables in Madrid, Dublin, Edinburgh, Singapore, Duisburg and Hong Kong as well as on Miss Saigon in Stuttgart and Scheveningen.

During the last two decades his work has been seen at international theatres and festivals that include the Comédie-Française, the Paris Opéra, the Vienna State Opera, the Bregenz Festival, La Scala, Milan, the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg and La Monnaie in Brussels.

Since 2007 he has created the lighting designs for several of David Pountney’s productions, including La forza del destino in Vienna, Die Zauberflöte in Bregenz, the world premiere of Philip Glass’s The Lost, which opened the Linz Musiktheater in 2013, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Leipzig Opera. Together with Claus Guth he has worked on La bohème and on the world premiere of Michael Jarrell’s Bérénice at the Paris Opéra. And in 2022 he created the lighting designs for the world premiere of Philip Glass’s ballet Alice at the Opéra national du Rhin.

Fabrice Kebour also designed the lighting for the opening and closing ceremonies at the Asian Games in Doha in 2006. He is a co-founder of the Union des Créateurs Lumière, remaining the society’s president until 2012. In 2011 he was invited by the Prague Quadriennale to take part in an exhibition, Light Speaks, that showcased the work of several international lighting designers.

Fabrice Kebour has received numerous prizes and honours and has three times been nominated for the prestigious Molière French Theatre Award.