ABOUT
Jon-Luke is a working class writer, director, dramaturg and producer based between the Midlands, London and South West who champions stories about family, class dynamics, care and hope.
Working across theatre and screen, his work finds an aesthetically bold form for each unique story while maintaining authenticity and honesty in storytelling. He is particularly drawn to bold reimaginings of classic texts, rousing new writing and exploring inter-disciplinary approaches to theatre making. His work leans to atmospheric works of immersion and acts of total feeling, placing emphasis in the audience's presence and liveness.
Being a creative from a working-class background with care responsibilities, Jon-Luke places great value in the importance of empathy, kindness and connection within his work and the rooms he likes to be a part of. He instinctively interprets text(s) sonically, imagining text as music and emotions to explore and be played. A skill which facilitates deep and organic exploration and creation in his work and when tied with a love of psychology provides an affecting, engaging and brave theatrical experience for audiences.
He is currently working on a new piece of writing which explores the PIP system through a supernatural lens, developing a new play that explores parasocial relationships and celebrity through the form of clowning, and adapting a brand new version of Timon of Athens that centres the working class lived experience in its bold retelling .
Building on his inter-disciplinary work he has recently been on set working for Netflix and Apple TV on the creation of two exciting new drama's Seven Dials and Down Cemetery Road. He was also previously the Script Supervisor for a BBC short film True Love and Wormholes staring Anjana Vasan and Corey MyIchreest.
Previous credits include: The Three Musketeers, a bold swashbuckling retelling of the Alexander Dumas' classic; Gristle, a scintillating exploration into the perception of ‘fatness’ in society and male body image; The Glass Wall, a poignant dive into the realm of online dating and authenticity and The Arden of Faversham, a darkly comedic Jacobean romp.