---
name: "Luke Matheny"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/luke-matheny"
fi1m_id: "luke-matheny"
imdb_id: "nm1487468"
tmdb_id: 1157087
wikidata_id: "Q6702134"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "23 December 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T04:37:11.924328+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Luke Matheny

## Identity

Luke Matheny

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/luke-matheny
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** luke-matheny
- **IMDb ID:** nm1487468
- **TMDB ID:** 1157087
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6702134
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Matheny, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6702134, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1487468/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1157087

Director. Born 23 December 1976 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 23 December 1976, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Matheny, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6702134, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1487468/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1157087

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Baby-Sitters Club*](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020), Fi1m 85, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *E.B. White's Charlotte's Web* (2025), series, as Barney (voice), Announcer / Bystander 2 (voice) · Executive Producer, Writer, Screenplay, Creator
- *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md)
- *Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth* (2020), Writer
- *The Dangerous Book for Boys* (2018), series, as Mr. Tree · Director
- *So You've Grown Attached* (2014), as bearbear (voz)
- *Lovesick* (2014), Director
- *Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street* (2014), series, Producer
- *Maron* (2013), series, Director
- *A Birder's Guide to Everything* (2013), Writer
- *God of Love* (2010), as Ray · Director
- *Where Are You Going, Elena?* (2009), Actor
- *A Place in France...*, Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 2011: Best Live Action Short Film (won), for *God of Love*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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