about
Luke Wisniewski is a proud Minnesotan (GET OUT ICE) and theater artist based in NYC.
Recently, he directed and adapted Arden of Faversham, the 1592 anonymously published true-crime play, at ALab Theater Festival, where he also serves as co-director. As an actor, he recently performed with Hoi Polloi in Winning is Winning at JACK/The Brick, with Quick and Dirty Theatre Co. in The Iguana Becomes Marco (“truly comic and marvelously acted,” TEN TODAY #153), and in Johnathan Journals with Clubbed Thumb’s New Play Directing Fellowship.
Last year he created, directed, and performed in Public Broadcast Laboratory at ALab and 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. Even further in the past, 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 and recently ASMing 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.
If you’re quick, you can catch Distant Image of Tiny World, created and directed by Luke and his producing partner Sophie Rossman at ART NY on Jan 16th. Coming up, he will appear in a remount of The Iguana Becomes Marco, co-direct Take Me to Dollywood by Harris Singer at La Mama Downstairs, and will produce the third ALab Theater Festival this Summer.
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 making 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.
