LAWRENCE E. DISTASI

LAWRENCE E. DISTASI

Ensemble Member

Since 1988

Lawrence E. DiStasi (he/him) is an actor, writer, and director and founding Ensemble Member, and has appeared in more than 30 Lookingglass productions, including : Metamorphoses, Treasure Island, Thaddeus and Slocum: A Vaudeville Adventure, The Old Curiosity ShopLookingglass AliceMetamorphosis (the Bug Show), Eastland: A New Musical and The Arabian Nights. In addition to Lookingglass, he has helped to create The Actors Gymnasium Circus and Performing Arts School.

His directing credits include The Baron in the Trees at Lookingglass (which he also co-adapted) and Dream, Science Fiction, Lost and Found and Skooled at The Actors Gymnasium. He’s appeared in the Flying Griffin Circus, on TV in Early Edition, in a film called Since You’ve Been Gone and in an opera called Galileo Galilei.

Bio as of 2017

Artist Media

Credits And Awards

Theatre Credits

Regional

  • American Repertory Theater
  • Actors Theater of Louisville
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music
  • The Getty Villa

Film Credits

  • Jessica
  • Older Children
  • A Good Person
  • Ballad

Television Credits

  • Chicago Med (NBC)

Awards

  • Jeff award for Best Supporting Actor for Glass Menagerie (Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co.)
  • Jeff Award for Best Ensemble for All Our Tragic (The Hypocrites)

Education

Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University