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, Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, coauthored with Charlie Mayhew.
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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?
Nico Taylor
Associate Artistic Director | nico@enoriverplayers.org
Nico Taylor began his theatrical career at age five as a Memorial Player. Since then he’s acted in productions such as Macbeth, Hand to God, The Government Inspector, and, with the Eno River Players, Dead Souls, Anatomy of Melancholy, and Cried the Phoenix. While studying at Yale, he co-founded and served as Executive Producer of the alternative theater collective Playspace.
Associated Artists
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, Lorin Kaplan, Lauren Lee, Charlie Mayhew, Stephanie Minervino, Natasha Partnoy, Matthew Sampson, Dominic Sullivan, Felix Teich, Gabe Whitnack.
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.