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. It has been mentioned in over 20 "Top Ten" or "Best Of" lists for 2022. Other awards recognitions include Independent Spirit Award 2023 nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Director, along with two 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 forthcoming Amazon Prime TV series 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, which is currently in post-production.
Park's Per Capita has a number of film and television projects in various stages of development, including THE CARTOGRAPHERS, with writer/director Veena Sud adapting the short story by Alexander Weinstein; the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's #1 New York Times bestselling novel, THE RETURN, which Park will produce alongside Sparks and Elizabeth Cantillon, who optioned it for her MRC Film label; 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 is also slated to produce alongside Anonymous Content for Unviersal Studios three films based on recent and forthcoming Nicholas Sparks novels, including THE WISH (Hachette, 2021) and DREAMLAND (Random House, 2022).
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).
A co-founder of Park & Fine Literary and Media, she has been a literary agent since 1994. Her clients include NYT bestselling authors such as Nicholas Sparks, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Debbie Macomber, Deborah Harkness, Janice Y.K. Lee, Cecelia Ahern, and Amy Chua. She is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and Harvard Law School and Makes her home in NYC.
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. It has been mentioned in over 20 "Top Ten" or "Best Of" lists for 2022. Other awards recognitions include Independent Spirit Award 2023 nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Director, along with two 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 forthcoming Amazon Prime TV series 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, which is currently in post-production.
Park's Per Capita has a number of film and television projects in various stages of development, including THE CARTOGRAPHERS, with writer/director Veena Sud adapting the short story by Alexander Weinstein; the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's #1 New York Times bestselling novel, THE RETURN, which Park will produce alongside Sparks and Elizabeth Cantillon, who optioned it for her MRC Film label; 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 is also slated to produce alongside Anonymous Content for Unviersal Studios three films based on recent and forthcoming Nicholas Sparks novels, including THE WISH (Hachette, 2021) and DREAMLAND (Random House, 2022).
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).
A co-founder of Park & Fine Literary and Media, she has been a literary agent since 1994. Her clients include NYT bestselling authors such as Nicholas Sparks, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Debbie Macomber, Deborah Harkness, Janice Y.K. Lee, Cecelia Ahern, and Amy Chua. She is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and Harvard Law School and Makes her home in NYC.
