Theresa Park(II)
- Producer
Theresa Park is the founder and president of Per Capita Productions, developing TV shows at Apple and Amazon Studios, as well as feature films with A24, Universal, Cinereach, Anonymous Content, FilmNation, and other studio and producing partners.
She produced Bones and All, director Luca Guadignino's first U.S.-set feature film, starring Timothee Chalamet, Taylor Russell, and Mark Rylance, which debuted at the 2022 Venice Film Festival and went into wide release from MGM in November 2022. The film was nominated for 2023 Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature Film, Best Lead Performance, and Best Supporting Performance. It received two acting nominations from the Gotham Awards and won the Silver Lion at Venice for Best Director, and the film's star, Taylor Russell, won Best New Talent.
After Yang, the film Park produced together with Cinereach for A24, premiered worldwide in Un Certain Regard at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It had its US debut at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, and subsequently premiered in theaters and on Showtime. The film garnered Independent Spirit Award 2023 nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Director, along with two Gotham Awards nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Actor. Directed and adapted by writer-director Kogonada, from Alexander Weinstein's short story "Saying Goodbye to Yang," the film stars Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Justin Min.
Park was an executive producer of Roar for Apple TV+, an anthology series of darkly comic feminist fables, starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, and Alison Brie, as well as Expats, the Amazon Prime TV series starring Nicole Kidman based on Janice Y.K. Lee's New York Times bestselling novel, adapted for television by Alice Bell and Lulu Wang and directed by Wang.
Per Capita has a number of film and television projects in various stages of development, including the sophomore feature from Berlinale alumni Chuko and Arie Esiri, Clarissa, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic Mrs. Dalloway reimagined for modern day Nigeria, several adaptations of Nicholas Sparks's #1 New York Times bestselling novels including The Wish at Universal Studios, Counting Miracles at Amazon Studios, and Sparks's forthcoming novel REMAIN, which Park will produce alongside M. Night Shyamalan, who will write and direct, as well as his producing partner Ashwin Rajan and producer Marc Beinstock. She is also the producer on an animated children's series at Apple+ based on the bestselling children's series The Sisters Grimm, and a TV series based on Joel Kostman's memoir Keys to the City.
Park was a producer on the feature films The Best of Me (Realativity, 2014), The Longest Ride (Fox 2000, 2015), and The Choice (Lionsgate, 2016), all based on novels by Nicholas Sparks. She executive produced the telefilm Deliverance Creek (Lifetime, 2014).
Theresa is a co-founder of the literary agency Park, Fine, and Brower, and during her 30 years as a literary agent, she represented bestselling commercial fiction and a short list of serious nonfiction. The authors she represented topped global bestseller lists, enjoyed blockbuster film success, earned major advances from the best publishers in the business, and sold millions of copies of their books in every language. She is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and Harvard Law School and makes her home in New York City. A uniquely broadminded creative and business partner, Park brings her varied background and her keen eye for literary excellence to her work as a producer, championing unusual stories for fearless auteurs.
She produced Bones and All, director Luca Guadignino's first U.S.-set feature film, starring Timothee Chalamet, Taylor Russell, and Mark Rylance, which debuted at the 2022 Venice Film Festival and went into wide release from MGM in November 2022. The film was nominated for 2023 Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature Film, Best Lead Performance, and Best Supporting Performance. It received two acting nominations from the Gotham Awards and won the Silver Lion at Venice for Best Director, and the film's star, Taylor Russell, won Best New Talent.
After Yang, the film Park produced together with Cinereach for A24, premiered worldwide in Un Certain Regard at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It had its US debut at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, and subsequently premiered in theaters and on Showtime. The film garnered Independent Spirit Award 2023 nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Director, along with two Gotham Awards nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Actor. Directed and adapted by writer-director Kogonada, from Alexander Weinstein's short story "Saying Goodbye to Yang," the film stars Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Justin Min.
Park was an executive producer of Roar for Apple TV+, an anthology series of darkly comic feminist fables, starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, and Alison Brie, as well as Expats, the Amazon Prime TV series starring Nicole Kidman based on Janice Y.K. Lee's New York Times bestselling novel, adapted for television by Alice Bell and Lulu Wang and directed by Wang.
Per Capita has a number of film and television projects in various stages of development, including the sophomore feature from Berlinale alumni Chuko and Arie Esiri, Clarissa, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic Mrs. Dalloway reimagined for modern day Nigeria, several adaptations of Nicholas Sparks's #1 New York Times bestselling novels including The Wish at Universal Studios, Counting Miracles at Amazon Studios, and Sparks's forthcoming novel REMAIN, which Park will produce alongside M. Night Shyamalan, who will write and direct, as well as his producing partner Ashwin Rajan and producer Marc Beinstock. She is also the producer on an animated children's series at Apple+ based on the bestselling children's series The Sisters Grimm, and a TV series based on Joel Kostman's memoir Keys to the City.
Park was a producer on the feature films The Best of Me (Realativity, 2014), The Longest Ride (Fox 2000, 2015), and The Choice (Lionsgate, 2016), all based on novels by Nicholas Sparks. She executive produced the telefilm Deliverance Creek (Lifetime, 2014).
Theresa is a co-founder of the literary agency Park, Fine, and Brower, and during her 30 years as a literary agent, she represented bestselling commercial fiction and a short list of serious nonfiction. The authors she represented topped global bestseller lists, enjoyed blockbuster film success, earned major advances from the best publishers in the business, and sold millions of copies of their books in every language. She is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and Harvard Law School and makes her home in New York City. A uniquely broadminded creative and business partner, Park brings her varied background and her keen eye for literary excellence to her work as a producer, championing unusual stories for fearless auteurs.
