Theresa Park (born 1967) is a New York-based

literary agent A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers, film producers, and film studios, and assists in sale and deal negotiation. Literary agents most often represent novelists, screenwrit ...

. She discovered and represents several internationally best-selling authors, including

Nicholas Sparks Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and philanthropist. He has published twenty-three novels and two non-fiction books, some of which have been ''New York Times'' bestsellers, with over 115 m ...

Debbie Macomber Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948) is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Six of her novels have become made-for-TV movies and her ''Cedar Cove'' series of novels was adapted into a television series of the ...

Emily Giffin Emily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit. Her notable works include '' Something Borrowed'', ''Heart of the Matter'' and ''The One and Only''. Early life Emily Giffin ...

, Janice Y.K. Lee,

Taylor Jenkins Reid Taylor Jenkins Reid is an American author most known for her novels ''The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo'', '' Daisy Jones & The Six'', and '' Malibu Rising''. Career Reid graduated from Emerson College in Boston and majored in media studies. She ...

Cecelia Ahern Cecelia Ahern (born 30 September 1981) is an Irish novelist, known for her works like '' PS, I Love You''; ''Where Rainbows End''; and '' If You Could See Me Now''. Born in Dublin, Ahern is now published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold o ...

, and

Deborah Harkness Deborah Harkness (born 1965) is an American scholar and novelist, best known as an historian and as the author of the All Souls Trilogy, which consists of ''The New York Times'' best-selling novel ''A Discovery of Witches'' and its sequels '' ...

, among others. She grew up principally in

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, and

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, but attended

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and

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

in the

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after graduating from the American International School in

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. She is fluent in

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and can speak French.

Career

After

, Park worked as a corporate attorney at

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in Silicon Valley before leaving to join Sanford J. Greenburger Associates as a literary agent in 1994. In 2005, she left to begin her own literary agency, Park Literary and Media. In 2019, Theresa Park, along with Celeste Fine, a leading non-fiction agent, launched Park & Fine Literary and Media. Park & Fine is an literary agency based around having a team approach to clients. Theresa Park also has her own production company, Per Capita Productions, of which she is the president. Per Capita Productions is producing

After Yang ''After Yang'' is a 2021 American science fiction drama film adaptation written, directed, and edited by Kogonada. It stars Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, and Haley Lu Richardson. The plot follows a ...

, based on a story by Alexander Weinstein, alongside producing partner

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. After Yang, which is directed by

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, and stars

Colin Farrell Colin James Farrell (; born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor. A leading man in projects across various genres in both blockbuster and independent films since the 2000s, he has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award. ''The I ...

Jodie Turner-Smith Jodie Turner-Smith (born 7 September 1986) is a British actress and model. She made her feature film debut in ''The Neon Demon'' (2016) and has since acted in ''Queen & Slim'' (2019), '' After Yang'' (2022), and ''White Noise'' (2022). She's als ...

, and Justin Min, began filming in May 2019 and is now in post-production. It is being financed and distributed by

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. Additionally, Per Capita Productions is producing the upcoming

The Expatriates ''Expats'' is an upcoming American drama streaming television series based on the 2016 novel ''The Expatriates'' by Janice Y. K. Lee that is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video. Premise ''Expats'' follows "the vibrant lives of a close-knit e ...

television series based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s same-titled book alongside

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and Per Saari of

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. Park's Per Capita Productions is also producing ROAR, based on the

book, alongside Blossom Films as well as

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's Made Up Stories, author Cecelia Ahern, and

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. ROAR will be a television series for

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, with

Liz Flahive Liz Flahive is an American playwright, television producer and writer. Beginning her career as a playwright, Flahive wrote two plays, ''From Up Here'' and ''The Madrid''. She acted as a producer, executive story editor, and writer on ''Nurse Jack ...

and

Carly Mensch Carly Mensch is an American playwright, television writer, and producer. She created an Off-Broadway play called ''Len, Asleep in Vinyl'', which was later adapted into a film, '' Len and Company''. She also created a play ''Oblivion'', which pla ...

executive producing and

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References

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