
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 Shop, Lookingglass Alice, Metamorphosis (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
Lookingglass Productions
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