Leo Egger
Founding Artistic Director
leo@enoriverplayers.org
Leo Egger is a director and playwright interested in make-believe. He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Eno River Players, a NYC theater company devoted to classical theater and original adaptations.
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He has directed numerous classics (by Gogol, Williams, Shakespeare, and more) as well as, occasionally, new plays. He wrote, directed, and produced original adaptations of Bulgakov’s Dead Souls, Plato’s dialogues, and, with Charlie Mayhew, Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy and The Book of the Twelve from the Bible.
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He has worked at Target Margin Theater as an intern and assistant director for David Herskovits, most recently on Remember This Trick. In addition to TMT, He has worked at Here Arts Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mercury Store, La Mama Experimental Theatre, 14th-Street Y, Krymov Lab NYC, Culture Lab LIC, and the David Geffen School of Drama.
Born and raised in Durham, NC, Leo studied at the Durham School for the Arts and Yale University.
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​His work is about make-believe and interested always in the question: what is possible only in the theatre?
Charlie Mayhew
Board President / Resident Playwright
charlie@enoriverplayers.org
Charlie Mayhew is a PhD student and Presidential Scholar in the History of Science at Harvard University. He coauthored The Book of the Twelve and The Anatomy of Melancholy with Leo Egger.
Associated Artists
NYC: Lola Kennedy, Hamzah Jhaveri, Lauren Lee, Charlie Mayhew, Stephanie Minervino, Natasha Partnoy, Dominic Sullivan, Nico Taylor, Felix Teich, Gabe Whitnack.
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Durham: Pamela Alberda, Jennie Alwood, Emerson Beyer, Lucie Ciccone, Victoria Christina, Dan Duffy, Oliver Egger, Daniel Egger, Rachel Emrick, Cathy Emrick, Milo Fryling, Jackson Gemborys, Julia Haws, Jeff Jones, and Lorin Kaplan.
Associated artists are theater artists and actors who have contributed significant time into the Eno River Players and have been, and continue to be, instrumental in our ability to create our art. Their voices and visions are representative of our values as a theater.