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Lucas Elliot Eberl | |
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| Born | Lucas Elliot Eberl March 29, 1986 |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, writer, director |
| Years active | 1997–present |
Lucas Elliot Eberl (born March 29, 1986) is an American actor, director, and pianist best known for his role as Birn in the 2001 film Planet of the Apes and for his film Choose Connor. In 2008, Eberl was described by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the "10 Young Americans to Watch". He is currently in production on his second feature film, You Above All.
Eberl began his filmmaking career in 1997 after his first film acting job at the age of 10, making documentaries for the local TV station winning a variety of awards. He then wrote and directed Incest which won the Audience Choice Award at the international First Look Student Film Festival, and stars Erick Avari, Hallee Hirsh, and John Patrick Amedori. Eberl subsequently directed several short films which played at film festivals all over the world.
In 2008, his directorial feature film debut, the political drama Choose Connor, starring Steven Weber, Alex Linz, Escher Holloway, John Rubinstein, April Grace, and Richard Riehle, [1] toured to film festivals worldwide including CineVegas, Woodstock Film Festival, Rome International Film Festival, Method Fest, Newport Beach Film Festival, Omaha Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, NewFilmmakers NY and LA, as well as the Philadelphia International Film Festival, where Choose Connor won the Jury Prize for Best American Independent. [2] It was then released theatrically and on DVD by Strand Releasing to rave reviews from major publications including The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , Washington Post , and Variety .
Eberl was named by MovieMaker Magazine one of the "10 Young Americans to Watch".
In 2011, Eberl co-directed with Tommy Snider the "Together Again" music video for the Grammy nominated band Shiny Toy Guns, and co-directed with Edgar Morais the music videos for Shiny Toy Guns' subsequent singles "Waiting Alone" and "Fading Listening", as well as the music video for "Centerfold" by MOTHXR.
Eberl filmed Fault Line, a feature film set in Los Angeles, in secret with a cast that includes Kris Lemche, Caitlyn Folley, Dov Tiefenbach, Jon Foster, Michael Welch, Edgar Morais, Chris Marquette, Zoë Kravitz, Leah Pipes, Lou Taylor Pucci and Angela Sarafyan. The film is described as being a period piece taking place in 2009 that revolves around the lives of a group of young adults struggling with the consequences of a rapidly changing world during the turn of the decade. The film is expected to be released in 2026.
On June 25, 2021, We Won't Forget, the short film directed by Lucas Elliot Eberl and Edgar Morais, had its world premiere in competition at the Academy Awards qualifying Palm Springs International ShortFest. [3] The film was co-written by the directors and Whitney Able, who stars in the film as a woman whose frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective hysteria. Edgar Morais also stars in the film alongside John Patrick Amedori, Paul James, Davida Williams and Caitlyn Folley, among others. The film screened in competition at the Hamptons International Film Festival, [4] Tirana International Film Festival, [5] Woodstock Film Festival, Rooftop Films [6] and IndieLisboa International Film Festival, among many others and was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick [7] and Short of the Week. [8]
We Won't Forget won the Grand Jury Prize, as well as the award for Best Editing at Castrovillari Film Festival and the Jury's Honorable Mention at FEST New Directors New Films Festival. [9] and was nominated for Best Fiction Short Film at the 2022 Sophia Awards (Portuguese Academy Award). [10]
Eberl is currently in production on the multi-year spanning feature film You Above All, co-directing with Edgar Morais.
Eberl started his acting career in the Colorado theater, performing on many stages including at the Denver Center Theater Company, [11] Denver Civic Theater, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Boulder's Dinner Theatre, and several others.
Eberl's long list of film acting credits include a lead role in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes , with Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter; Phantoms , with Ben Affleck and Peter O'Toole; and Lost In the Pershing Point Hotel, with John Ritter; A Painted House based on John Grisham's novel, with Logan Lerman, Scott Glenn, Robert Sean Leonard, and Melinda Dillon, directed by Alfonso Arau; and in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima with Ken Watanabe; Larry Clark's Marfa Girl 2 ; Miguel Nunes' You See the Moon, Final Recourse with Chaz Palminteri and Teri Polo, the cult teen comedy Getting that Girl, and Marcela Jacobina's Nobody with Carloto Cotta.
Lucas Elliot Eberl portrayed the poet, playwright, novelist and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne in 2024's The Worst Man In London directed by Rodrigo Areias and produced by Paulo Branco which screened as an official selection in the Big Screen Competition at 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam with a cast that also includes Albano Jerónimo, Edgar Morais, Edward Ashley, Simon Paisley Day, Scott Coffey and Carmen Chaplin.
Rodrigo Areias' The Worst Man in London. He won the award for Best Actor in a Short Film at the prestigious Method Fest for his performance in Aaron Himelstein's Sugar Mountain. Luke has also had guest starring roles on many television series including Cold Case , Judging Amy , Boston Public , Touched by an Angel , ER , and Big Love as well as a recurring role as Daniel Gibson on the Netflix series Daredevil and voicing several characters on the Disney Channel series Fillmore!
Eberl's upcoming projects include Victoria Mahoney's Chalk and the RTP series Lugar 54.
Lucas Elliot Eberl is also an accomplished pianist and composer. He is the piano protégé of Frank Zappa's legendary Grammy-nominated pianist Tommy Mars. [12] He has performed live all over the world and recorded with several bands.
For Scholastic Books he composed and performed the score for the promotional materials and book tour of Caldecott Medal-winning Brian Selznick's book "The Marvels", [13] the audio book for Martha Brockenbrough's "Into the Bloodred Woods", [14] and composed and performed the score for the short film companions to Scholastic's "You Are (Not) Small" and Mo Willems' "That is NOT a Good Idea" which was awarded the prestigious Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video. He composed the theme music for the Scholastic Reads Podcast [15] and has music featured on Adam Schartoff's "Filmwax Radio" Podcast and the news program "Democracy Now".
He has been the composer for films such as "The Maestro" starring Xander Berkeley, [16] "The Napkin” starring Scoot McNairy [17] and "Twenty-Three Pints" starring Alexandra Krosney. [18] He has performed in Los Angeles such as the House of Blues, Hotel Cafe, [19] The Mint, Harvard and Stone, Don't Tell Mama, Witzend, Rockwell, Trip, and many others, and in New York City venues including Symphony Space, [20] The Hudson Theatre, Caffe Vivaldi, Gussy's, The Path Cafe, DBA, and others. He has also performed in Colorado at venues including Trident Cafe, [21] Johnny's Cigar Bar, Southern Sun, The Laughing Goat, Mountain Sun, and Bramble and Hare, and in Lisbon, Portugal at Cossoul, [22] O Grilo Beato, [23] Clube B.Leza, [24] O Limbo, Les Bons Vivants, Piano Aquário, and in Porto, Portugal at Menina e Moça.
His debut solo piano album is set to be released in 2024.
Eberl lived for one year in Canada's arctic where he worked with schoolchildren in the town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories teaching piano and film. On occasion he taught a video production class at Samuel Hearne Secondary School and even coached two students to the Territorial Skills Competition held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. He added to the popularity of filmmaking in the north and encouraged the youth to continue to produce short films. [25]
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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| 1998 | Phantoms | Tunnel Boy | as Luke Eberl |
| 2000 | Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel | Young Storyteller | as Luke Eberl |
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes | Birn | as Luke Eberl |
| Touched by an Angel | Young Daniel | ||
| 2003 | Fillmore! | Oscar Mabini / Cuzzy Shotwell / Jeeter / Henchman | |
| Searching for Haizmann | Julian Cain | ||
| 2004 | Boston Public | Dominick Avery | |
| Judging Amy | Terry Shein | ||
| Cold Case | Wayne Larkin | ||
| 2005 | Landslide | Steven Decker | |
| Sugar Mountain | Jude | winner, Best Actor, The Method Fest | |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Sam | as Lucas Elliott |
| Big Love | Detweiler | ||
| 2009 | Surprise, Surprise | David Brand | as Lucas Elliott |
| Numbers | James | ||
| Adam | Adam | ||
| Eyeborgs | Jarett Hewes | as Luke Eberl | |
| 2010 | Here & Now | Young David | |
| 2011 | Getting That Girl | Ferrat Barret | as Luke Eberl |
| 2012 | Ashley | Randall | |
| 2013 | Final Recourse | Will | as Luke Eberl |
| 2014 | Menthol | Roth | |
| 2015 | Masterless | Derek | |
| The Slap | |||
| Oh, Gallow Lay | |||
| 2016 | Daredevil | Daniel Gibson | |
| 2018 | You See the Moon | Luke | |
| Marfa Girl 2 | Luke | ||
| The Maestro | Adam | ||
| Shadow of a Gun | Richard | ||
| 2023 | Nobody | @__filthyrich__ | |
| 2024 | The Worst Man In London | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| Year | Title | Other notes |
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| 2002 | Incest | |
| 2005 | Fellowship | |
| 2007 | Choose Connor | Winner of the American Independents Award at Philadelphia Film Festival |
| Everything You Don't Know I Don't Know | ||
| 2011 | 11:30 PM | |
| 2021 | We Won't Forget | Co-directed with Edgar Morais |
| 2025 | You Above All | Co-directing with Edgar Morais |
| 2026 | Fault Line |
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