Lucas Kane is a Brooklyn-based theater and film director. From 2024 to 2026, he was assistant director to André Gregory on Wallace Shawn’s newest play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days. Prior to that, he assisted Peter Brook on his final two plays, Why? and La Tempête, as well John Cameron Mitchell on his newest play in development at Playwrights Horizons.
Drawing from these experiences, Kane creates theater and film projects that foster political dialogue and community engagement. In 2022 and 2023, he staged Bertolt Brecht’s The Measures Taken for thousands across Brooklyn and Chicago, in collaboration with organizations like Poetry Project, DSA, Interference Archive, Haymarket Books, and multiple tenant and labor unions.
And his films have been screened at New York Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Anthology Film Archives, Porto/Post/Doc, La Clef, Visual Studies Workshop, Microscope Gallery and many others.
Drawing from these experiences, Kane creates theater and film projects that foster political dialogue and community engagement. In 2022 and 2023, he staged Bertolt Brecht’s The Measures Taken for thousands across Brooklyn and Chicago, in collaboration with organizations like Poetry Project, DSA, Interference Archive, Haymarket Books, and multiple tenant and labor unions.
And his films have been screened at New York Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Anthology Film Archives, Porto/Post/Doc, La Clef, Visual Studies Workshop, Microscope Gallery and many others.
contact: lucas.r.kane@gmail.com