about
Luke Wisniewski is a proud Minnesotan and theater artist based in NYC.
Recently, he directed and performed in his new work, Public Broadcast Laboratory, an adaption of a late 60’s news broadcast infused with folk gospel music exploring America’s distant relationship with death. As an actor, he recently performed with Hoi Polloi (d. Alec Duffy) in Winning is Winning at JACK/The Brick and with Quick and Dirty Theatre Co. in The Iguana Becomes Marco by Booth McGowan (“truly comic and marvelously acted,” TEN TODAY #153).
In March, he directed and performed in The Seagull, & The Raven, & The Fox, & The Peacock, & The Old Dog at The Clemente in partnership with the NYU ProFunds Grant Program and last December he directed Clown in Waiting by Booth McGowan at Luo’s Events in Red Hook. He has had the pleasure of assistant directing with Alec Duffy, Santiago Molina, and Sophie Rossman.
Luke graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a Honors in Theater Studies and completed training at The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute (2023 Clifford Odets Ensemble Practicum Program), The Experimental Theater Wing, The International Theatre Workshop in Amsterdam, and the Innovation Studio. During his time at Tisch he appeared in 10+ departmental and student productions and completed acting apprenticeships with The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company.
He is the founding artistic director of The American Classics Theater (TACT), a NYU-affiliated company that produces reimagined works by classic and contemporary American playwrights. Through TACT he directed and produced Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind at The American Theater of Actors and was an artistic producer on The Seven Deadly Sins, Poof!, Trifles, and Annie Baker’s The Antipodes.
Currently, Luke is a member of Clubbed Thumb’s NPDF Acting Cohort and is on the stage management team of Adult Relationships, a co-production between The Tank and The Collapsable Hole. Coming up, he will direct, perform in, and sound design Arden of Faversham (11/14-11/16), a farcical noir adapting the anonymously written 1592 play. The play will premiere at ALab Theater Festival at the IRT Theater, where he also serves at the co-director.
In his free time Luke volunteers at PS3 Charrette School teaching movement and physics to elementary students and ushers for The Wooster Group. He is an audiophile and hosts and produces a variety radio show, NYWHO? on WNYU 89.1 FM and freelance sound designs for theater and radio. One day he hopes to retire to the garden like his grandparents in Stillwater, MN.
