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EDUCATION:

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at AUSTIN, Department of Theatre & Dance
• Master of Fine Arts in Directing, 2010

BROOKLYN COLLEGE, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY
• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, 1998
• Magna Cum Laude

SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY, Huntsville, TX
• Theatre Arts Major, 1993-1995

EXPERIENCE:

DIRECTING

The University of Texas at Austin


2010   THE DIFFICULTY OF CROSSING A FIELD, The B. Iden Payne Theatre
Opera by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang and Obie Award-winning playwright Mac Wellman
Nominated for eight 2010 Austin Critics' Table Awards including "Best Opera"

2008   I LIKE THINGS THAT ARE REALLY SOMETHING ELSE, FOR REAL, The Blanton Museum of Art
Museum-theater piece for Austin Museum Day

2008   OUR LADY OF 121st STREET  By Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Lab Theatre
In addition - Scene Designer

2008   WHY KOREANS DON’T HUG (new play) By Soo-Jin Lee, The Lab Theatre
In addition - Scene Designer

2008   BEAT VOICES (museum-theater), Harry Ransom Center
In conjunction with the exhibition ON THE ROAD WITH THE BEATS

2008   BAD PENNY by Mac Wellman, The Blanton Museum of Art

International

2009   L'INDIANO VUOLE IL BRONX By Israel Horovitz, Teatrino delle Sei, Spoleto, Italy

New York, NY


2006   PITCHED, Actors’ Playhouse
10th Annual New York International Fringe Festival
In addition - Scene Designer

2004   HEADLINE, BRIC Studio
Performance and video conceived by
Luke Leonard, Words by Susan Dunlap

2003   THE CRAZY PLAYS, BRIC Studio
Revised script for BRIC by Jeffrey M. Jones

2003   NEW WORK by Luke Leonard, BRIC Studio
• PERFORMANCE RECORD #1
Also produced at Makor, 2007
• EVIL-IN-PROGRESS
Also produced at Little Theatre, 2003
• WONDER/PLAY (music-theatre)

2002   MISTER ORIGINAL BUGG, BRIC Studio & Little Theatre
World Premiere Short Play By Mac Wellman

2002   THE WAR IN HEAVE, BRIC Studio

2001   DISPOSABLE PLAYS (one-acts), DUMBO Theater eXchange

2000   BONY AND POOT, DUMBO Theater eXchange
In addition - Scene Designer

2000   UNTITLED, 1985, DUMBO Theater eXchange
The Fourth annual d.u.m.b.o. art under the bridge Festival

1998   NIL TO NIGH, d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac)
Collaboration with Yukihiro Nishiyama

1997   INSIDE THE STATE HOSPITAL, Theater for the New City
Premiered in an evening called “Hours of Danger”

ASSISTANT TO DIRECTOR

2009   SHAKESPEARE'S SONETTE, Berliner Ensemble (Berlin)
Directed and Designed by Robert Wilson

2007   ELEPHANT’S GRAVEYARD, Oscar G. Brockett Theatre (Austin)
Directed by Laura Kepley

1998   WHITE NIGHTS, La Mama, E.T.C. (New York)
Directed and Adapted by Andrea Paciotto

ACTING *available upon request

OTHER EXPERIENCE:


FILM/VIDEO (screenings are in italics)

• ANTIQUATED PLAY (2007)
Writer, Director, Editor, Performer, Producer
2007 NYC Premiere, Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, NY

• URCHIN (released by Vanguard Cinema 2007)
A feature film by John Harlacher, produced by 2 Cities Productions
Director of Photography
2007 Rapture Cafe, New York, NY
2007 NYC Premiere, Red Room Theatre, New York, NY

• THINGS THAT AREN’T EVEN THERE (2004)
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Music video for Pale Blue Dot

• TO HAVE THE SUNSHINE (2004)
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Music video for Justin Collins

• NO ACCOUNT FILM (1999)
Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
2004 Flicker Festival, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY
2000 DUMBO Theater eXchange, Brooklyn, NY

• UNEMPLOYED IN NYC: PORTRAITS FOR YUKIHIRO NISHIYAMA (1998)
2002 BRIC Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2000 DUMBO Theater eXchange, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2009    "The Time It Takes." Installation. Part of the Downtown Austin Alliance “Holiday Stroll." Congress Ave., Austin, TX

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2010   THE ART OF DEPICTING NATURE AS IT IS SEEN BY TOADS, The Lab Theatre

SELECTED GROUP PERFORMANCES

2008    "Big Time," Okay Mountain, Austin, TX

ADMINISTRATIVE

2009-2010 Season Selection Committee, The University of Texas at Austin
• Committee Member, Graduate Student Body Representative

Monk Parrots, Inc., New York, NY, 2007 – Present
• Founder/Member

DTX (a/k/a DUMBO Theater eXchange, Inc.,) Brooklyn, NY, April 2000-2007
• Founder/Artistic Director

BRIC Studio, Brooklyn Information & Culture, Brooklyn, NY, 2002-2004
• Creator and Curator of Theater Nexus (a monthly theater series)

d.u.m.b.o. arts center (DAC), Brooklyn, NY, October, 1999, 2000, 2001
• Theater Coordinator, The d.u.m.b.o. art under the bridge Festival

ADDITIONAL TRAINING:


ACTING
• Viewpoints, The SITI Company, New Dance Group, New York, NY
Instructors: Akiko Aizawa, J. Ed Araiza, Ellen Lauren, Tom Nelis, Barney O’Hanlon
• Joseph Chaikin Master Class, La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY

DIRECTING
• Master Class in Composition with Anne Bogart, New York, NY
• Joseph Chaikin Master Class, Westbeth Theatre Center, NY

PERFORMANCE ART
• Advanced Performance Art, Professor Michael Smith, Univ. of TX at Austin

INSTALLATION/SCULPTURE
• Installation/Sculpture, Professor Margo Sawyer, Univ. of TX at Austin

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:


The University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Instructor. Spring 2009; Fall 2009
Department of Theatre & Dance: Undergraduate Course
• TD 303 – Fundamentals of Acting. Developing a respect for acting, skills for script analysis, playing an action, and an awareness of time and space through the use of exercises derived from Meisner and Viewpoints techniques.

The University of Texas at Austin
Teaching Assistant. Fall 2008
Department of Theatre & Dance: Undergraduate Courses Assisted
• TD 351T – Acting for the Camera. Developing the actor’s sense of awareness to his/her “actor type,” fostering a deeply personal acting style for the camera, and learning about the actor-director relationship by collaborating with film students in the creation of dogma-style films.
• TD 313E – Acting III. Based on Sanford Meisner’s premise that, “Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances,” students are introduced to the Meisner technique to help them personalize their association with text, circumstances, and action.

PUBLICATIONS:


Leonard, Luke. “On With The Mission (DTX).” Producing Your Own Showcase. By Paul Harris. Ed. Nicole Potter. New York: Allworth Press, 2001.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

“Al Teatrino delle Sei in Scena ‘Trilogia Horovitz’, Ovvero La Genesi Della Violenza.” Rev. of L’Indiano Vuole Il Bronx, dir. Luke Leonard. Teatrino delle Sei. Tuttoggi.info 15 Sept. 2009. 10 Nov. 2009 http://www.tuttoggi.info/articolo-17603.php

Capitta, Gianfranco. “Horovitz, Trilogia delle solitudine.” Il Manifesto 27 Sept. 2009. 10 Nov. 2009 http://rete-eco.it/it/approfondimenti/europa-usa-etc/9060-horovitz-trilogia-della-solitudine.html

Distefano, Giuseppe. “Storie di pregiudizi razziali nella ‘Trilogia’ di Israel Horovitz.” ilsole24ore.com 17 Sept. 2009. 10 Nov. 2009 http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Tempo%20libero%20e%20Cultura/2009/09/trilogia-istrael.shtml?uuid=b42e7c4a-a3aa-11de-9cb7-ea7a81dfc3bd&DocRulesView=Libero

Fioretti, Anna Lia Sabelli. “Guerra, odio pregiudizi nella trilogia di Horovitz.”  Corriere dell’Umbria 8 Sept. 2009. 10 Nov. 2009 http://www.offucina.com/OFFUCINA_ITA/corriere_umbria_09_-_horovitz.html

Hinojosa, Richard. “Pitched.” Rev. of Pitched, dir. Luke Leonard. Actors’ Playhouse. NYTheatre.com 11 Aug. 2006. 29 Nov. 2008 http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/archshow.php?key=777.

Jacobs, Leonard. “DUMBO Stages Flying Under Manhattan Bridge.” Backstage 25-31 January 2002: 3.

Manni, Antonella. “Trilogia Horovitz Conquista Il Pubblico.” Spoleto City 7 Sept. 2009. 10 Nov. 2009 http://www.spoletocity.com/index.php/societa/spettacolo/2565-qtrilogia-horovitzq-conquista-il-pubblico

Ryzin, Jeanne Claire van. “Review: ‘The Difficulty of Crossing a Field.’” Austin360 25 April 2010 http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/seeingthings/entries/2010/04/25/review_the_difficulty_of_cross.html?cxntfid=blogs_austin_arts_seeing_things.

Shaw, Helen. “Best of the Fringe 2003.” Rev. of Birdland, perf. Luke Leonard. The Linhart Theatre. The New York Sun 15 Aug. 2003, Arts & Letters sec.: 12.

Simmons, Paulanne. “New Ideas.” The Brooklyn Papers/GO Brooklyn 24 Mar. 2003, Vol. 26, No. 12 ed.: 5.

Simmons, Paulanne. “Odd Couple: DUMBO Theater Showcases new talent in Bony and Poot.” The Brooklyn Papers/GO Brooklyn 20 Nov. 2000, Vol. 23, No. 46.

Winter, Gary. “Experimental Theater Grows in Brooklyn.” The Brooklyn Rail Winter 2003: 52.

AWARDS:

The University of Texas at Austin

2009-10         Jack G. Taylor Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Fine Arts
2009               ZT Scott Travel Grant
2008               Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professorship Travel Grant
2008-09         Jack G. Taylor Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Fine Arts
2008-09         Morton Brown, Nellie Lea Brown, and Minelma Brown Lockwood Scholarship Fund in Drama
2008               The University Co-Op Cohen New Works Research and Development Grant
2007-08         Francis Hodge Endowed Award
2007-08         Georgia B. Lucas Foundation Fund

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

1997               Joseph Davidson Scholarship

Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX

1995               Mel Silverman Scholarship
1993               Mel Silverman Scholarship

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
Dramatists Guild Associate Member
Monk Parrots, Inc.
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)

 


 

 

 

 

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