Ensemble Member
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
EDUCATION
Northwestern University
CREDITS AND AWARDS
THEATRE CREDITS
ACTING
Broadway:- Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square Theatre)
Off-Broadway:
- Metamorphoses (Second Stage Theatre)
DIRECTING
Chicago:- Dream, Science Fiction, Lost and Found, Skooled (The Actors Gymnasium)
FILM CREDITS
- Since You’ve Been Gone
TELEVISION CREDITS
- Early Edition
AWARDS
- Jeff Award Nomination for New Adaptation for The Baron in the Trees (Lookingglass Theatre Company, 1999)