Biography
Luke Matheny is an American director, writer and actor. He was born on 23 December 1976 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1997 and later earned an MFA in film from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2010.
His thesis film, the short God of Love (2010), which he wrote, directed and starred in, won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Matheny made his feature directorial debut with Lovesick (2014). He has also written the features A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013) and Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (2020).
On television, Matheny has directed episodes of series including Maron (2013–2015), Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street (2014–2016) and The Baby-Sitters Club (2020). He has also written for and produced children's programming such as Ghostwriter (2019–2021) and the 2025 miniseries adaptation of Charlotte's Web.
