Lucas Kane is a Brooklyn-based theater and filmmaker whose work spans experimental documentary and community-engaged theater. Since early 2024, he has served as assistant director to André Gregory and Wallace Shawn on their latest collaboration, which will premiere in 2026. He has also assisted Peter Brook on his final two plays, Why? and La Tempête, and John Cameron Mitchell on his new play currently in development at Playwrights Horizons.
Drawing from these experiences, Kane creates theater and film projects that foster political dialogue and community engagement. In 2023, he staged Bertolt Brecht’s The Measures Taken for audiences of several thousand in Brooklyn and Chicago, in collaboration with organizations including the Poetry Project, DSA, Interference Archive, Haymarket Books, and various tenant and labor unions.
His films have been screened at New York Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Anthology Film Archives, Visual Studies Workshop, Encuentros Con El Otro Cine, Mimesis Documentary Festival, and Microscope Gallery.
Drawing from these experiences, Kane creates theater and film projects that foster political dialogue and community engagement. In 2023, he staged Bertolt Brecht’s The Measures Taken for audiences of several thousand in Brooklyn and Chicago, in collaboration with organizations including the Poetry Project, DSA, Interference Archive, Haymarket Books, and various tenant and labor unions.
His films have been screened at New York Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Anthology Film Archives, Visual Studies Workshop, Encuentros Con El Otro Cine, Mimesis Documentary Festival, and Microscope Gallery.
contact: lucas.r.kane@gmail.com