Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt is a German film and theatre actor and director.

After a creative break that he spent in California, Kuhlbrodt with other artists established in 1980 an alternative theater project in the former Atlantic Movie Theatre in Düsseldorf.

With various projects he toured throughout West German correction institutions and other theater-distant social facilities.

After a stint at the Theater des Westens in 1992, Kuhlbrodt became a member of the Berliner Ensemble.

In 2002, for political reasons, Kuhlbrodt established the independent group Global Heroes[1] that appeared with the multimedia performance America at war: a mini-series.