The Tempest (Prague Shakespeare Company). Photo by Kaja Curtis.
HEY, EVERYBODY!
MY NAME'S LUKE MEISEL and I’m a Boston-based actor, producer, and playwright from the sunny shores of Providence, Rhode Island.
I’m enter my final year pursuing a BFA at the BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEATER, where I recently received The School of Theater Prize. During my education, I’ve also been lucky enough to study internationally at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Prague Shakespeare Company, which allowed me to perform and learn in England, Czechia, and even Italy with a tour of PSC’s bilingual staging of The Tempest to Genoa’s Festival in una notte d’estate.
I'M PARTICULARLY PASSIONATE about stories that highlight themes of Latino-American identity, religious philosophy, neurodivergence, and disability, all of which take a prominent role in my play King Gringo Fights the Culture! which premiered in BU’s Fringe Festival this September directed by Noah Putterman.
Other than new work, some friends and I founded HALF x BAKED THEATER COLLECTIVE, using physical theater methodology to find new, actor-driven avenues of creation. Our first show, What You Will (a clown-based adaptation of Twelfth Night), premiers this summer at the Boston Center for the Arts. Follow for updates at our Instagram: @halfbakedtheaterco!
My artistic practice is one that centers honesty, connection, and community. I am at my happiest when I’m learning and exploring with great collaborators by my side. My goal in the rehearsal room is to put my best foot forward, and I hope that my next room is one with you!
NEWS
2026
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Luke is begins the New Year studying Shakespeare and Comedy of Manners abroad in a short course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
2025
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Luke played distraught immigrant Juror No. 11 in Boston University’s 12 Angry Jurors directed by Michael Hisamoto (The Public, The Huntington, Lyric Stage) in a production highlighting multicultural identities’ perspectives on capital punishment.
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Luke’s debut play Heartburn premiered at Boston University’s Fringe Festival as a Next Stage Workshop under the mentorship of Kirsten Greenidge and Brendan Zheng.
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Over the summer, Luke teamed up with four other students to produce Caryl Churchill’s psychological thriller A Number, portraying the clones B1/B2/Michael in a revitalization of the student-led theater initiative Quarter 0 in the BU season.
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This past July, Luke participated in developing Gabriela Tovar-Borghini’s new play Domenico’s Blemish at the Boston Center for the Arts, portraying Michelangelo’s patron Pope Julius II in a staged reading at the BCA.
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Luke acted in the inaugural Boston University Sophomore Acting Festival, playing “Claudio” in Much Ado About Nothing directed by Clay Hopper (Senior Lecturer) and Chris Edwards (Actor’s Shakespeare Project) He also played bass and wrote original music with Nathaniel Ryan-Kern for the show.
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Beginning the New Year, Luke debuted on the BU stage as wayward junkie “Bob” in David Mamet’s American Buffalo, presented as a BU Senior Thesis directed by Clay Hopper. College of Fine Arts Dean Harvey Young described the production as “thrillingly interpreted.”
American Buffalo, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Number at Boston University.
2024
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With Prague Shakespeare Company, Luke brought Kiara Pipino’s Italian-English bilingual production of The Tempest to La Festival in una Notte d’Estate, performing as “Ferdinand” on the streets of Genoa.
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This summer, Luke studied abroad as part of the Prague Shakespeare Company’s Summer Intensive season, acting in The Tempest (Ferdinand) directed by Kiara Pipino, The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse) directed by Jennifer King, and Twelfth Night (Antonio) directed by Dani Bedau, touring the former two productions to Venice.
PSC's The Tempest on the streets of Genoa.
2023
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Luke begins studying for a BFA in Theater Arts - Performance at Boston University.
