Park Cofield is an Atlanta/Los Angeles based theater director and puppet builder. Park has written four plays for the stage, designed and conceived three original puppet shows, three site-specific street performances, two puppet films, and a playwright auction fundraiser event. His work is frequently based on odd-yet-true stories, historical fact, and the work of surrealist painters. His early works include: The POE Project or Corn on the Macabre, a comic adaptation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe (which enjoyed four weeks of sold out performances), MONA!, a farce about the theft of the world's most famous paining, and The Earl of Sandwich, a musical.

Park received his degree in theater studies and visual studies from Emerson College in 2004. While in Boston, Park co-founded and served as president of RareWorks Theatre, producing 4-6 student run productions a year. During the year of his graduation, Park completed a summer internship with New York Theatre Workshop, represented Emerson College by directing Mosquitoes as part of the annual Boston Theatre Marathon, participated in Christo and Jeanne Claude's public art project, The Gates, and received a Rod Parker Playwrighting Award for Over My Dead Body, a farce involving the stolen corpse of Charlie Chaplin.

Broadening his horizons, Park traveled to study with the Odin Teateret in Holstebro, Denmark in 2005. There he trained with Eugenio Barba, editor of Towards a Poor Theatre, and a prestigious company of international actors known for their unique physical approach to training and performance, international performance barters and street performance. That spring Park followed the company to Wroclow, Poland and participated in the 14th International School of Theater Anthropology. There he trained with masters of Indian Kathakali, Japanese Nōh, Corporeal Mime, Balinese dance, and Brazilian Candomblé.

On his return to his home in Atlanta, Park started an artistic internship at the Center for Puppetry Arts, a venue he had frequently attended as a child. This opportunity opened many doors and fundamentally changed the way in which Park incorporated visual and moving elements into his performances. He has been selected as a project director for Xperimental Puppetry Theater at the Center four times, most recently directing Saint Agnes & the Giant, a puppet play for binoculars. His original stage projects and film, The Frightful Musicians (2006), The Ill-Fated Balloonists (2007), and Ambrose Burnside: A True Story of Facial Hair (2008) have incorporated rod and body puppetry, masks, toy theater, and costumed actors. As a puppet builder, Park has created puppets for Jack in the Black Box's Animal Farm, and Georgia Shakespeare's Tom Thumb the Great. He was enlisted as the puppet director for the Oakhurst Garden's Community Earth Day Parade, and built the masks for Haverty Marionettes' As I Lay Dying, a production on which he also served as Assistant Director. He has also puppeteered for The Atlanta Opera, first in Basil Twist's Hansel and Gretel (2007) and again for The Magic Flute (2010).

In 2007, Park returned to Europe to perform with the Odin Teatret in a multi-national touring performance of Ur-Hamlet,featuring an ensemble of 104 performers from around the world. The culminating performance took place in Hamlet's historical castle in Helsingor, Denmark. In 2010, Park worked to bring Odin actor, Roberta Carreri, to the Alliance Theatre for a one night only even and launched a monthly e-newsletter to further discuss performance styles and methods of devising theater. In June of the same year,Park received a commission to develop a site-specific work titled SEE THE GYRASTACUS as part of Atlanta's prestigious public art project, Art on the BeltLine. This project, along with the recent follow up, THE OGRE'S ARM (2011), sought to explore the idea of spectacle performance and performing in the street. Park develops these projects by collecting stories, mythologies, legends from actors and community members through a period of investigation and training, community arts barters, and development rehearsals. With each of these shows, Park seeks to further define his personal methodology to ensemble-based creation, actor training, and community engagement.

Most recently, Park has developed two new projects for family and children audiences, The Red Balloon for Théâtre du Rêve (2011) and Rabbit Tales for The Atlanta Opera (2011). His bi-lingual stage adaptation of Albert Lamorisse's classic film and book, The Red Balloon, played to sold out audiences and will be re-mounted at 7Stages in 2012. Rabbit Tales, a touring children's opera based on the Br'er Rabbit stories of Joel Chandler Harris, marks the Atlanta Opera's first ever commission and Park's opera stage directing debut. Rabbit Tales received it's national premiere at The Wren's Nest House Museum and kicked off National Opera Week 2011.

In September 2011, Park and his wife, Katie, drove across country and have made a home in Los Angeles, CA. Park is currently working with Cornerstone Theater Company where he has been awarded the Altvater Fellowship and is serving as a producing associate for Creative Seeds: An Exploration on Hunger, two weeks of programming dedicated to launching the ensemble into a six-year period of work dedicated to an investigation of hunger. Cornerstone Theater is a community engaged ensemble theater that has been producing original plays with communities for 25 years.

Park also provides freelance marketing consultation for community arts organizations. For four years, Park worked as the Audience Development Manager/Associate Marketing Director at the Center for Puppetry Arts. His specialities include audience engagement programs, word of mouth marketing, niche marketing, and social media.