After graduating with an MA (Geography) from Oxford University, Luscombe trained as a director at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the mid 1980s.
As a director, Luscombe has worked in London’s West End, On and Off-Broadway, in Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan and all over the UK.
His most notable West End productions include Tom Stoppard’s Artist Descending a Staircase (at the Duke of Yorks, and subsequently at the Helen Hayes Theatre in New York), and Private Lives with Joan Collins at the Aldwych Theatre.
His London fringe credits include a 1993 production of Joe Pintauro’s Snow Orchid featuring Jude Law at the Gate Theatre.
He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier award for his productions of Noël Coward’s Easy Virtue and Terrence Rattigan’s The Browning Version & Harlequinade (1988).