Luke Santy is a Brooklyn-based musician and theater artist currently pursuing his MFA in Sonic Arts at Brooklyn College. He is Co-Artistic Director and Musical Director of puppet-based theatre company Little Did Productions, which has performed at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta, GA), and at the National Puppetry Festival (Storrs, CT). Other Favorite Credits include “Lost and Found” (EMPAC), “All Is Calm” (Boise Contemporary Theater), “Shakuntala” (Williams College), and several productions with Lehman College dating back to 2018 as a Sound and Projection Designer. He makes sample-based music under the moniker LUKEINTERNET and plays in the Brooklyn band HYPEMOM. Click the picture for more links to Luke’s music and social media pages.
EDUCATION
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Class of 2009
BAs in Music and South Asian Studies, Minor in Theatre
Cum Laude, High Honors, Periclean Society
SITI Company Acting Training Intensive, Summer 2016
In The Water Theater Company Physical Training Residency, Summer 2016
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, Class of 2025
MFA Program in Sonic Arts at the Feirstein Graduate Cinema School
LITTLE DID PRODUCTIONS (Co-Artistic Director, Musical Director, 2007-Present)
Little Did Productions is dedicated to creating innovative and exemplary puppet-based theater for audiences of all ages (littledidproductions.com). Luke is a founding member of the company and Co-Artistic Director alongside master puppet designer and fabricator Jessica Marie Lorence.
Selected LDP Credits (more information/media at the “Productions” link in menu)
Solina – Musical Director, Performer, Composer, premiered 2015, revised 2020
Residencies and Awards: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Hot Time in the Old City space residency, Creative Space Grant, Dime Community Fund (see “Selected Reviews” below)
A Ramayana – Musical Director, Performer, Sound Designer, premiered 2019
Residencies and Awards: Performa, inaugural Object MoveMent Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Nancy Quinn Fund, In The Water Theater Company residency, Drop Forge and Tool residency, The Creative Space Grant, The Creative Opportunity Fund, BarnArts residency
Eli the Luthier – Musical Director, Performer, Composer, premiered 2013, reprised 2015, video released 2020
Residencies and Awards: Great Small Works, Puppeteers of America National Puppetry Festival
A Silly Silverstein Show – Musical Director, Performer, 2007-2008
Skidmore College, Spring 2007
Camp Jewell YMCA, Summer 2007
Saratoga Arts Festival, Summer 2007
New York International Fringe Festival, Summer 2008 (see “Selected Reviews” below)
LEHMAN COLLEGE
Adjunct Lecturer 2022-2023
“Digital Storytelling” (Spring 2023)
“Advanced Stage Management” (Spring 2022)
“Multimedia Production Workshop” (Spring 2022)
Non-Teaching Adjunct 2022-2023
Video, projection, and sound design/support for productions in the Multimedia, Theatre and Dance Department productions. Includes mentoring student designers and guest lectures
Sound Designer 2018-2023
Electricidad directed by Claudia Acosta (Fall 2018), Life of Galileo directed by Rick DesRochers (Spring 2019), A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Rick DesRochers (Fall 2019), Kenopsia directed by Amy Larimer (devised and released on Zoom, Fall 2020), Polaroid Stories directed by Tamala Bakkensen (stage production scheduled for Spring 2020; Zoom film released Spring 2021), Pa’lante! directed by Victoria Perez (sound and projection design, Spring 2022), The Amen Corner by James Baldwin (Spring 2023), Fires in the Mirror directed by Claudia Acosta (sound and projection design, Fall 2023)
OTHER SELECTED CREDITS
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol by Tom Mula – Sound Designer, Performer, 2023
Presented by TITAN Theatre Company at Queens Theatre
Shakuntala by Kalidasa – Sound Designer, Composer, Performer, 2023
Williams College Spring production co-directed by Sean Devare and Shanti Pillai
All Is Calm directed by Tracy Sunderland – Sound Designer, 2021 and 2022
Co-Production between the Boise Contemporary Theater and Opera Idaho
First Violin by Sean Devare – Composer, Performer, Sound Designer, 2020-2021
First Violin: Darshan (live scoring and sound design at Mabou Mines, 2021)
First Violin: Anugraha EP (audio EP premiered as part of Mabou Mines Suite/Space 2020)
A Grave Is Given Supper by Mike Soto – Sound Designer, Composer, 2021
Premiered as part of New Ohio Theater’s Ice Factory 2021
Split Valley produced by Five on a Match – Composer, 2020
Fiction podcast written by Caroline V. McGraw and directed by Eddie Prunoske
BlueBeardGasLight by Kyra Miller Himmelbaum – Tech Consultant 2019-2020
Live QLab operator for piece featuring live camera and sound integration. Premiered via video after “Object MoveMent Festival 2020” was canceled
In Blue written and directed by Ran Xia – Composer, Performer 2019
World premiere run at the Tank Theater featured live cello playing and sound design (see “Selected Reviews” below)
Regina Nejman & Co. – Composer, Sound Designer, 2017-2022
Take It Back (presented as part of MFA Thesis, April 2022), Bubble (video premiered at Emotion & Soul Film Festival, April 2021), Rethinking Strategies (premiered at Dixon Place, August 2018), How Deep Tissue is Your Face Massage? (premiered at Dixon place, April 2017)
South Dakota directed by Mitchell Conway – Composer, Live Score, 2013
The Jewel Box Theatre, New York, NY (see “Selected Reviews” below)
SELECTED REVIEWS
In Blue (The Tank, 2019)
“Finn Kilgore is radiantly contained as the earnest, searching Marc, and Alyssa Simon outsize in life-performance and heartbreaking in personal solitude as Lasker-Schüler; a lone cellist, Luke Santy, provides counterpoint, with somber classical intonations and spectral, processed effects.” ~Adam McGovern, HiloBrow.com
New World Sonata (Sound Designer for fiction podcast, released 2018)
“The voice acting is very believable and excellent, the characters are unique and feel real, at that sound design/foley art! My favorite, but it’s all great stuff, and it sounds like a professional production. I could close my eyes and be transported to that New World Sonata universe, and 20 minutes would go by in a flash…” ~dennisp61, Apple Podcasts
Solina (New York International Fringe Festival, Summer 2015)
“…after all is said and done, ‘Solina’ is sure to be remembered as one of the most ambitious and thoughtfully constructed offerings at Fringe 2015. Boasting a hummable soundtrack, solid stagecraft, and optimistic message, Little Did Productions makes work that capitalizes on the pleasures of a theatre geared towards children without making their audience (regardless of age) feel childish.” ~ Sam Silbiger, Theater Is Easy
South Dakota (The Jewel Box Theatre, 2013)
“The stagecraft here is excellent. Luke Santy provides live accompaniment on guitar and also operates the sound board from a corner of the stage; his contributions to the mood and environment are vital.” ~Martin Denton, nytheatre.com