If these Winship walls could talk.

Led by Artistic Director and University of Texas at Austin alumnus Luke Leonard (MFA ‘10), Monk Parrots is a performing arts organization founded in New York City that encourages creative approaches to theatre-making and builds repertory performance works that cross artistic boundaries. Recently, Monk Parrots has been invited by 59E59 Theaters to present their new work, Here I Go, in the spring of 2012. In addition, the La MaMa Spoleto Open in Spoleto, Italy has invited the company to present Here I Go at the summer festival.

Luke has also been hired by Opera Moderne to direct Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw at Symphony Space in May 2012.

Fellow Longhorns are well represented in Monk Parrots collaborations. Joey LePage (BA ‘10) serves as the company’s Co-Producing Artistic Director and John Harmon (BA ‘10) serves as an administrator for communications.