E2E: Plotters

Producing Company

Bios

Brian Parks (Playwright) is an American playwright whose work has been produced in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. His play Americana Absurdum won the Best Writing Award at the New York International Fringe Festival, and went on to win a Fringe First award at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was one of the first plays staged at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory theater. His other produced plays include Shortlist, The House, Enterprise, The Professor, The Golfer, Goner, The Invitation, Imperial Fizz, American Poodle (Splayfoot), Suspicious Package, and Out of the Way. Enterprise won a Fringe First Award at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and is published by Broadway Play Publishing, New York City. Imperial Fizz and The House are published by Josef Weinberger, Ltd., London. The Invitation is published in the collection Plays and Playwrights 2010.

Margarett Perry (Co-director) is an award-winning director of new plays. She has directed and developed new work Off Broadway and in regional theatres across the country as well as in Scotland and London. Her previous 59E59 productions include: Brian Dykstra’s Clean Alternatives (Fringe First Award/Edinburgh), A Play on Words and Education (also by Brian Dykstra), and Body Politic by Richard Abrons & Margarett Perry as well as the East to Edinburgh shows: Shortlist, The Golfer, Clean Alternatives, and No Parole. Margarett directed the world premiere of John Jiler’s The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project at New Jersey Repertory Company last spring that went on to perform at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh. Other recent world premieres include: the critically-acclaimed world premieres of Born in East Berlin by Rogelio Martinez and Seared by Theresa Rebeck both at San Francisco Playhouse, The House by Brian Parks (US, London & Scotland), and Banned from Baseball by Patricia O’Hara (Human Race). Margarett was the resident director at The Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca where she has directed over 25 productions including The Thanksgiving Play, Sunset Baby, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Paloma, and world premieres by Brian Parks (The House), Rob Ackerman (Call Me Waldo), Rachel Axler (Archeology), and Brian Dykstra (The Two of You, Strangerhorse). Other recent favorites include: Shrek the Musical (Connecticut Rep), Used to Was/Maybe Did (Center Theatre Group), The Revolutionists (Human Race), and A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Hudson Stage). Margarett was an artistic fellow with the Lark for years and considered it her theatrical home base. www.margarettperry.com

Natalie Tell (Co-director) In the last two years Natalie was the associate director of The Golfer and Shortlist by Brian Parks (59E59 East to Edinburgh & Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe) for Twilight Theatre Company. This year she is an associate on both The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project by John Jiler and Polishing Shakespeare by Brian Dykstra, and co-directing Plotters by Brian Parks with Margarett Perry (all with Twilight Theatre Company). She is studying directing at the University of Michigan where she directed Horse Girls by Jenny Rachel Weiner and was the assistant director on The Heart of Robin Hood and Clean House by Sarah Ruhl. She would like to thank her support system’s mom and dad, Margarett, and her friends for their guidance and helping her pursue her passion.

Twilight Theatre Company was founded by Sturgis Warner in 1998 committed to the development of new work. Some highlights include Ted LoRusso's Prelude to the First Day, Suite for Four Actors and Percussionist, Brian Dykstra’s A Play on Words (59E59) and Palestine by Najla Saïd which had a sold-out 9 week Off-Broadway run.  Now under the artistic leadership of Margarett Perry, Twilight continues its mission to support new work through readings, workshops, and productions. Last season, Twilight produced two new plays to at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Assembly Rooms — the world premiere of Shortlist by Brian Parks (in collaboration with Flying Bridge Theatre in Wales) and the UK premiere of John Jiler’s The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project which will have its New York Off Broadway premiere this summer. This season, Twilight is working with UK artists to bring their work to the US and is producing Watson: The Final Problem and Appraisal at 59E59 Theaters’ Brits Off Broadway Festival as well as bringing two world premiere’s to Edinburgh – Plotters by Brian Parks and Polishing Shakespeare by Brian Dykstra. Twilight’s mission is to develop, workshop, and produce new work and to tell stories that deepen our awareness, encourage compassion, and ignite conversation. www.twilighttheatrecompany.org