DARLEY PUBLISHING produces and distributes digital books, scripted dramatic podcasts, and films by artists and writers. Imprints include Dark Darley and Spectacle dans un Fauteuil. Our books and podcasts are available on Apple Books, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
R.A. Morgan is an American artist, writer, filmmaker and publisher. He was born in Oakland, California and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied painting with Larry Rivers and Gary Brown at the University of California at Santa Barbara where he graduated in 1992.
In the 1980's, in collaboration with Milly Iatrou, he created a series of video's called, The Very Reverend Deacon b. Peachy's 1/4 Hour plus 13 minutes, for the artists' television show, Communications Update, a.k.a. Cast Iron TV. He also played the role of the eponymous reverend. The series was written about in Artforum and other art journals of the period and is considered a prime example of Artists' Television.
After TVRDbP series he and Iatrou created a series of videos, Dead Poets, based on texts by 19th century poets and writers, as well as a video based on, My Autobiography: Portable, a story by the acclaimed writer, Frederic Tuten.
Morgan also produced, wrote, directed and edited educational videos on Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe which were distributed to schools and universities around the world. In the 2000s he wrote and edited long and short form documentary films for the Annenberg Foundation's Explore project.
In 2014 Morgan created Darley Publishing, a producer and distributor of digital, multimedia books and scripted podcasts. He has written three novels and several collections of short stories and photographs.
Morgan's films and videos have been shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Whitney Museum, The World Wide Video Festival, LA Freewaves, The Mill Valley Film Festival, The American Museum of the Moving Image, The New Museum and international film and video festivals. He lives with his wife and collaborator, Milly Iatrou, in Los Angeles, California.
Ms. Iatrou is a two time Oscar nominated motion picture sound editor who has worked on films by Francis and Eleanor Coppola, Damien Chazelle, Pixar Animation and 20th Century Studios to name a few. The complete list is available on IMDb. She has been with Darley Publishing since 2014.
Ms. Stromquist is a producer and editor of the ground breaking podcast, Nobody Should Believe Me, as well several others. Her Darley Publishing book, New Zealand Winter On The North Island, is our most downloaded publication. She has been with Darley Publishing since 2017.