about

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

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. 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.

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 the festival director of ALab Theater Festival, featuring twelve new works from 6.25-7.10 at the IRT Theater. He will appear as The Iguana in The Iguana Becomes Marco on 7.8 and 7.9 through ALab and later on 7.12 and 7.13 at Green Lung Studios. He also currently is performing in Winning is Winning by Hoi Polloi at JACK from 6.27-7.13.

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.