Aaron Posner

Aaron Posner is an established playwright, director, and theatre educator. As a playwright he has written more than 20 plays and musicals that have professionally produced. His re-imaging of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull (entitled Stupid Fucking Bird), was one of the ten most produced plays in the country in 2015 & 2016 and has now had more than 300 productions worldwide. Other plays include Life Sucks (from Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya), No Sisters (from Chekhov’s The Three Sister), Anton’s Shorts (from Chekhov vaudevilles and short stories), Nothing Up My Sleeve: Simple Deception for Curious Humans (with Nate Dendy), District Merchants (from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice), The Heal (from Sophocles’ Philoctetes), Who Am I This Time? & Other Conundrums of Love (from Kurt Vonnegut short stories), JQA, The Chosen, My Name Is Asher Lev, The Gift of Nothing, Me… Jane: The Dreams & Adventures of Young Jane Goodall and many more. As a director, he has helmed more than 150 productions at major theaters across the United States. Aaron has been teaching his entire career, and is a tenured full professor at American University in Washington, DC. In 1988 Aaron co-founded Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company, and was later the artistic director Two River Theatre in New Jersey. As both a playwright and director Aaron has won more than 20 regional theatre awards (out of nearly 100 nominations), including six Helen Hayes Awards, two Barrymore Awards, a Joseph Jefferson Award, an Eliot Norton Award, The Outer Circle Critics Award, The Off-Broadway Alliance Award, the LA Critics Drama Critics Award, a Theatre Bay Area Award, and the John Gassner Prize. His greatest inspiration is his daughter (and collaborator), Maisie Ann Posner.