Luke Harlan is an award-winning creative producer, director and writer for film, tv and theater. Currently, Harlan produces the Emmy-winning hit HBO series The Gilded Age, which is now in production for a highly-anticipated third season.

 

His short film White Flags starring Shaunette Renée Wilson, a study on consent in modern dating, was a finalist at the NY International Film Festival and was seen at festivals worldwide. His short thriller Close-Up was awarded winner at the NY Indie Film Festival. Harlan spent the previous decade in New York directing and producing dozens of plays, musicals, cabarets and drag shows, including two NY Times Critic's Picks, while also founding the Brooklyn-based arts collective Engine Company, which developed new film & theater projects. He was winner of the SDC National Directing Award and holds an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama.

 

Harlan believes deeply in the power of storytelling and his work is dedicated to crafting and telling inclusive stories with a focus on empathy, sensitivity, humor and rigor. His passion is for telling overlooked stories throughout history that highlight diverse and underrepresented voices and that showcase the joys and struggles of the LGBTQIA+ community. He is currently developing a series focused on the drag and vaudeville scene of late-19th Century Brooklyn as well as Order 9066, a feature about Japanese-American civil rights activist Fred Korematsu.

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