STURGIS WARNER (Director) has been an actor and director for many years in New York City, specializing in new plays and new play development. In 1998 he founded Twilight Theatre Company, which periodically produces readings, workshops and productions whenever a particular new-play need arises, as it did with Palestine. As an actor he has worked at The Public Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Signature, Second Stage, La Mama, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Portland Stage, among others. He has directed many new plays in New York and around the country. Along with his theater projects he is Co-Producer of two animated feature films for adult audiences written, directed and animated by Signe Baumane: Rocks In My Pockets (2014), a funny film about depression, and My Love Affair With Marriage, currently in production, to be released in 2021. Najla Said is one of 29 SAG-AFTRA actors whose voices were recorded for the new film. www.MyLoveAffairWithMarriage.com