Joe Burke is an award winning visual designer for live performance specializing in projection and lighting design. His designs have been seen and appreciated across the United States, in venues including live theatre, exhibit, and music performance.

Joe is also a creator of eye-catching visual effects, animations, and video content. He is a contributor to the Black Box Guild, capturing and creating video for others to utilize in their production process.

Theatre highlights include the pre-Broadway run and world premiere of August Rush (Paramount Theatre); Midwest premier of Hope, Part II of a Mexican Trilogy (Teatro Vista); Midwest premier of The Total Bent (Haven Theatre); Midwest premier of Women Laughing Alone With Salad (Theater Wit!); world premiere of Earthquakes in London (Steep Theatre); The Christians (Steppenwolf Theatre); The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time (Steppenwolf Theatre)

Musical performance highlights include Metamorphosis, a collaboration between Third Coast Percussion and Movement Art Is; Paddle to The Sea, a multimedia experience collaboratively composed and performed by the Grammy Award winning Third Coast Percussion.

Visual art presentations include Seven Soliloquies (Art on theMart); Folxtales (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign); Poetry Found (The Poetry Foundation)

Exhibit highlights include the world premiere of The Hunger Games Exhibition (Imagine Exhibitions); Spy: The Secret World Of Espionage (Base Entertainment); Sea Monsters (Base Entertainment)

Collaborating Companies: A-squared Theatre Workshop, Base Entertainment, Burke Brothers Sound, Case Western Reserve University, Chamber Opera Chicago, Cleveland’s Playhouse Square, Cleveland Public Theatre, Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Imagine Exhibitions Incorporated, Freeman AV, Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, North Park University Opera, Northwestern University, Paramount Theatre, Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, Theatre Wit!, The House Theatre of Chicago, theMart, The Poetry Foundation, The Yard, Third Coast Percussion, Travesty Dance Group, Broadway Sacramento at Music Circus, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Steep Theatre, and Writers' Theatre.

Joe holds a Master of Fine Arts from Illinois Theatre at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Kent State University. He was the recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Award for his projection design of Elf The Musical. In 2014 he was the recipient of The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 3, Theatre Design Excellence in Lighting Design Award. He has been a guest speaker at many institutions including Kent State University, the University of Illinois, and Northern Illinois University.