WILLIAM BURKE

William Burke is a playwright, curator, and director living in Brooklyn. His productions include the food was terrible (The Bushwick Starr), Is it Supposed to Last? (Playco), Help Me Draw Your Feelings? (The Brick), PIONEERS!#goforth (JACK), COMFORT DOGS: Live from the Pink House (JACK), FURRY! (JACK), FURRY!/LA FURIA! (The Bushwick Starr), Untitled American Flag Craft Project (The Brick), Variations on The Main (JACK). With Target Margin Theater: I Made a Mistake, EXPLODITY!, and DAY!Night?fuck... (JACK and The Stahl Center at Stoney Brook University). He has developed his plays/presented readings at NACL, NYTW, The Black Swan Lab (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), All For One, The Bushwick Starr, Little Theatre (Dixon Place), The Prelude Festival (CUNY Grad Center), and CATCH. As a director, William has worked with Modesto Flako Jimenez, Haruna Lee, Maya Lawson, Brian Lawlor, and many others. He most recently directed a collection of work for Performing Arts Hub Norway at La Mama. William studied playwriting at Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman, Anne Washburn, and Erin Courtney.

He is the head curator for The Starr Reading Series at the Bushwick Starr, Co-Chair of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab with Jackie Sibblies Drury, and co-curator for Little Theatre at Dixon Place (2017-2019). He has taught at Cornish College of the Arts and Stoney Brook University. His podcast series PEP TALKS FOR A NEW WORLD is available on all major platforms.