Theresa Park
Theresa Park is a New York-based literary agent. She discovered and represents several internationally best-selling authors, including Nicholas Sparks, Debbie Macomber, Emily Giffin, Janice Y.K. Lee, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Cecelia Ahern, and Deborah Harkness, among others.
She grew up principally in Germany, Lebanon, and Austria, but attended UC Santa Cruz and Harvard Law School in the United States after graduating from the American International School in Vienna, Austria. She is fluent in German and can speak French.Career
After Harvard Law School, Park worked as a corporate attorney at Cooley Godward 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, based on a story by Alexander Weinstein, alongside producing partner Cinereach. After Yang, which is directed by Kogonada, and stars Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Justin Min, began filming in May 2019 and is now in post-production. It is being financed and distributed by A24. Additionally, Per Capita Productions is producing the upcoming The Expatriates television series based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s same-titled book alongside Nicole Kidman and Per Saari of Blossom Films. Park's Per Capita Productions is also producing ROAR, based on the Cecelia Ahern book, alongside Blossom Films as well as Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories, author Cecelia Ahern, and Endeavor Content. ROAR will be a television series for Apple, with Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch executive producing and showrunning.
