E2E: #CHARLOTTESVILLE

Producing Company

Richard Jordan Productions and Yellow Raincoat Productions in association with The Pleasance

Priyanka Shetty (Playwright/Performer) is an award-winning actor, playwright, and director based in Philadelphia. Her critically acclaimed one-woman show The Elephant in the Room has been performed at numerous venues across the US and internationally, including The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC and the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe at the Assembly Festival, which led to a tour in Scotland. Priyanka recently premiered her second solo show #CHARLOTTESVILLE at The Keegan Theatre in Washington DC, and is excited for its upcoming month-long run at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe produced by the Olivier, Tony, Emmy, and Helen Hayes award-winning Richard Jordan Productions, with The Pleasance joining as Associate Producers. She has been awarded a generous grant by the National Endowment of the Arts for the development of The Wall, which will follow The Elephant in the Room and #CHARLOTTESVILLE as the third and final play in her Triptych of Solos. Priyanka's Triptych of Solos will have a coordinated nationwide premiere across multiple cities in 2025/26. Priyanka is an alumna of the prestigious Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. She has served on the jury of Open Screenplay's MFilm Lab in Canada and as a mentor for emerging screenwriters of South Asian descent, and most recently on the jury for the Atlanta Indian Film Festival. Priyanka earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of Virginia and has served on the faculty of the University of Virginia’s Department of Drama. www.priyankashetty.com

Yury Urnov (Director) is an award-winning American theater director and producer. In 2024, Yury received the highest US theater award as a co-artistic director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia (Best Regional Theater Tony Award). The performance of My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion he directed was named the Best Theatre Production in Washington DC of 2024 (Helen Hayes Award). The Wilma of Philadelphia Yury leads is one of the best-known experimental theaters nationwide in the United States. It is specifically famous for its splendid and diverse HotHouse acting company and the innovative shared-leadership model. Among other accomplishments, under Yury’s tenure, the Wilma Theater commissioned and produced the 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham by James Ijames. Yury also teaches at the Towson State University in Maryland and serves as an associate director of the Center of International Theater Development – a leading organization for international theatre exchange in the US.

Richard Jordan Productions (Producer) is a Tony, Olivier, Helen Hayes, and EMMY Award-winning production company based in London, under the artistic leadership of producer Richard Jordan. Described by The Stage newspaper as "one of the UK’s most prolific theatre producers," Richard Jordan Productions has produced over 260 productions (over 30 New York City presentations) in the UK as well as 28 other countries, including 90 world premieres and 98 European, Australian, or North American premieres, and been the recipient of over 60 major theater awards. The company produces and collaborates with many of the world’s leading theaters and has been at the forefront of developing and presenting works by a diverse range of established and emerging UK and international writers and artists. In 2013, Mr. Jordan became the first British producer to have won every notable Broadway and Off Broadway Best New Play Award.

Yellow Raincoat Productions (Co-Producer) is a dynamic, artist-driven company that develops and produces cutting-edge plays, independent films, and thought-provoking documentaries. Founded by award-winning playwright and performer Priyanka Shetty, the company champions innovative, genre-defying work that challenges conventions and sparks critical conversations. From critically acclaimed solo performances to immersive theatrical experiences and boundary-pushing cinema, the company thrives at the intersection of activism and art, using storytelling as a tool for transformation.

The Pleasance (Associate Producer) has been at the heart of Fringe theater and comedy since 1985. With an international profile and a network of alumni that reads like a Who’s Who of contemporary comedy, drama and entertainment, the Pleasance is a place for the experimental and the new. The Pleasance is both a Festival Organisation of 27 temporary venues across three sites, and a London theater and development center, with two permanent performance spaces which operate year-round. The Pleasance in London and Edinburgh are entirely symbiotic. We’ve been a registered charity since 1995 in England and Wales and 2012 in Scotland, supporting opportunities for artists year round.