Luke Rogers Artistic Director & CEO
Luke Rogers is a director, actor, producer, and the Artistic Director & CEO of Canberra Youth Theatre.
Luke holds a Master of Fine Arts in Cultural Leadership (2024) and a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Arts in Directing (2012) from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and a Bachelor of Arts in Performance from Theatre Nepean – University of Western Sydney (2002). As part of his MFA in Cultural Leadership, Luke undertook an international research placement with National Theatre of Scotland. In 2023, he was awarded the Freddie J Gibson Fellowship to explore youth arts practices across the UK and Ireland.
Luke’s directing credits include new plays, musical theatre, devised works, and classics for theatre companies and drama schools across Australia. Luke regularly sits on industry panels and advisory groups for government, advocacy organisations and peak bodies.
Other positions have included Artistic Director of Stories Like These, Resident Studio Artist at Griffin Theatre Company, Theatre Manager of New Theatre, and Artistic Director of The Spare Room.
His artistic practice focuses on the role of young people as legitimate creative agents in the development of new works, elevating emerging artists into creative leadership roles, and exploring how care is maintained, creativity nurtured, and leadership enabled with artistic process.
Directing credits include: The Department of Responsible Adulting, Work But This Time Like You Mean It, Rosieville, The Trials, How To Vote, Dags, Two Twenty Somethings Decide Never To Be Stressed About Anything Ever Again Ever, Little Girls Alone in the Woods, Normal, Possibility, Collapse (Canberra Youth Theatre); Mary Stuart, Collected Stories (Chaika Theatre / ACT Hub); In Real Life (Darlinghurst Theatre Company); Blink, MinusOneSister, Fireface, The Last Five Years, The Carnivores (Stories Like These); Play House (NIDA); The Pillowman, Waiting For Godot, Don Juan in Soho, Art is a Weapon, After The End, Blasted (New Theatre); 100 Reasons For War, Love and Information, Spring Awakening, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Women, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (AFTT); Lysistrata, The Burial At Thebes, Pool (No Water), 4.48 Psychosis, Eyes To The Floor (Sydney Theatre School); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mr Marmalade (CQUniversity); Macbeth, Cyberbile, Embers (AIM Dramatic Arts); and Two Weeks With The Queen (Mountains Youth Theatre).
Tour Director: The Witches (Griffin Theatre Company). Assistant Director: Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography (Griffin Theatre Company / Perth Theatre Company); Story of the Red Mountains (NIDA); The Boys (Griffin Theatre Company / Sydney Festival); Steel Magnolias (Blackbird Productions / Australian Tour); Assassins, The Crucible (New Theatre).
