Fishing For Alaska at Paradise Factory

STURGIS WARNER (writer/performer) is a longtime New York City actor, director, and occasional writer. He founded Twilight Theatre Company in 1998 to develop and produce new plays before passing it on to Margarett Perry in 2019. He has acted at the Public Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Signature Theater Company, Second Stage, HERE, La Mama, PS122, Portland Stage (ME), Actors Theater of Louisville, and many others including plays and events with downtown legend Jeff Weiss. Directing highlights with Twilight include Najla Said's Palestine, Ted LoRusso's First Day, and Twilight's first production, suits by Michael John Garcés. As a freelance director he has worked at The Kitchen Theatre (Ithaca), Encore (San Francisco), Actors Theater of Louisville, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage, New Jersey Rep, Abingdon, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and more. He's a longtime Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and helped develop many plays at the now defunct Lark Play Development Center. Bringing his theater skills to animation, he produced Signe Baumane's animated feature film My Love Affair With Marriage (2022) and is currently producing her third animated feature Karmic Knot (2029). Member AEA, SAG-AFTRA and SDC.

MICHAEL JOHN GARCÉS (director) is thrilled to be working with longtime collaborator Sturgis Warner on this project. He has worked at theatres across the country including Capital Rep, Mixed Blood, Arena Stage, The Mark Taper Forum, The Guthrie Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Intersection for the Arts, The Kennedy Center and many others. Plays he has written include The Americanos (commissioned by the National Day Laborers Organizing Network), Mascs (Profile Theatre Company – upcoming), TOWN (Theatre Horizon), south (Great Plains Theatre Commons) and 36 Yesses (Cornerstone). He is the former artistic director of Cornerstone Theater Company, a professional, community-engaged ensemble in Los Angeles, and is currently a professor of practice in the English Department at Arizona State University. He is a recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, the Princess Grace Statue and the Alan Schneider Award. Michael is the President of the Executive Board of SDC, the national union for stage directors and choreographers.