about

Luke Wisniewski is a proud Minnesotan and NYC based actor and theater director.

He is a current senior at NYU Tisch and has completed training at The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, The Experimental Theater Wing, and The International Theatre Workshop in Amsterdam. He was a member of the 2023 Clifford Odets Ensemble Practicum Program and will study in the inaugural class of The Innovation Studio with the founding artistic director of Theater Mítu, Rubén Polendo, for his final spring semester.

Luke has appeared in 10+ departmental and student productions at Tisch and has completed apprenticeships and performed 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 recently directed and produced Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind at The American Theater of Actors and was an artistic producer on Thornton Wilder’s The Seven Deadly Sins at The Goldberg Theater.

Most recently he directed Clown in Waiting by Booth McGowan with Quick and Dirty Theatre Company at Luo’s Events in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Upcoming work includes Five Units of Time and Action at the New York Theater Festival and an Untitled “The Seagull” Adaptation in partnership with NYU Tisch Department of Student Affairs through the support of the ProFunds Grant.

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.