Leo Egger is the Founding Artistic Director of the Eno River Players. He founded the Eno River Players at the age of 14 in 2015 with his Bar Mitzvah money as the initial budget. He has staged three full-length Shakespeare tragedies since then: Hamlet (2016), King Lear (2017), and Othello (DSA, 2018) and founded the Summer Lab Program which provides a voice for new directors in the community  (producing Waiting for Godot in the summer of 2017.) Recently he had directed productions of Richard II, Phaedo, The Government Inspector, and Coriolanus in New Haven, CT where he now lives. His work is known for being creatively challenging yet accessible for his audiences. He hopes to remind his community the wonder behind why we still produce these works. He takes all artists seriously and aims to give them a space where they can share their voices widely. He would be nowhere without the wonderful support of his players and technicians, especially those that gave him a initial chance when he directed Hamlet.

 

In the summer of 2017 he was a General Management intern at Target Margin Theater in New York City under the guidance of David Herskovitz and Moe Yousuf. He was also a member of  Target Margin Theater's summer workshop of David Herskovitz's Pay No Attention to the Girl which premiered in the spring of 2018. In the summer of 2018. He worked as a General Management and Development Intern at Here Arts Center in New York City and worked as the production intern for Chris Greene’s production of American Weather staged at the Dorothy B. Williams Theater in Here Arts Center. He also worked as an intern for Basil Twist’s production of Symphonie Fantastique.

 

Leo wants to thank all the fabulous artists he has had the pleasure to work with and the extremely generous donors. 

Leo is currently a senior undergraduate at Yale University, where he reads books.

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