Luke Cresswell is a self-taught percussionist from Brighton. His session work as a drummer and rhythm programmer includes Norman Cook, Bette Midler, Elvis Costello, and Bryan Ferry. After working for several years as a street musician and performer, he first created Stomp in 1991.
Luke Cresswell received an Oscar nomination for the film Brooms and an Emmy nomination for Stomp Out Loud. Luke received a JUBA special achievement award for his work in percussive dance from the Chicago Human Rhythm Project. His work as a performer in Stomp includes the Oscars, the Emmys and Quincy Jones’ album, Q’s Jook Joint.
Luke Cresswell has directed, with Steve McNicholas, several award-winning commercials, short films and the Imax film, Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey and most recently the Imax 3D film Wild Ocean.
