about
Luke Wisniewski is a proud Minnesotan and theater artist based in NYC.
Recently, he directed Harris Singer’s “vibrant, colorful, and engaging” Take Me to Dollywood at La MaMa E.T.C.’s Downstairs Theater. He later directed, adapted, and performed in The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola at ALab Theater Festival, where he also serves as co-festival director. Other original productions directed at ALab include Arden of Faversham, the 1592 anonymously written true-crime farce, and Public Broadcast Laboratory, a bluegrass-infused mediation on death.
As an actor, he recently performed with Quick and Dirty Theatre Co. at La MaMa in The Iguana Becomes Marco (“truly comic and marvelously acted,” TEN TODAY #153), with Hoi Polloi in Winning is Winning at JACK/The Brick, and in Johnathan Journals with Clubbed Thumb’s New Play Directing Fellowship.
In January he co-created and co-directed Distant Image of Tiny World, an archival theater piece inspired by NASA’s Golden Record, at ART NY with Re/Venue. Other directing credits include The Seagull, & The Raven, & The Fox, & The Peacock, & The Old Dog at The Clemente in partnership with the NYU ProFunds Grant Program and 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 and recently ASM’ing on Ben Gassman’s Adult Relationships.
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.
Coming up, he will direct Julian Cividanes’ The Waco Tapes, and assist Henry Alper and Alec Duffy on Statue and Sarah Kane’s Crave, respectively.
Luke is a director and audio engineer with VoiceWorks Audiobooks, freelance sound designs for theater and radio, and can be found house managing around town. In his free time he enjoys designing posters, ushering for The Wooster Group, and hosting a variety radio show, NYWHO?,on WNYU 89.1 FM. One day he hopes to retire to the garden like his grandparents in Stillwater, MN.
