Aaron Landsman

BIO

I write plays and monologues that draw on theater, dance, installation, and the occasional cheap pratfall.

My shows have been performed everywhere from a midtown office to a shotgun house to a black box theater; my characters often talk very quickly, they sound gracefully awkward and real (I hope). I've been writing and performing since 1993 but I could read before I could talk. My full-length pieces include What You've Done, Desk, Family Establishment, and three collaborative works, Wreckage, Cakewalk and How To Get By And Be Easily Understood. I've also made a few shorter pieces.

I'm currently working on two new shows: Open House, which will premier in February 2008, produced by The Foundry Theatre; and Love Story, premiering in November 2008 at the EFA Gallery, with a possible jaunt to London earlier in the year. My previous work has been presented at PS 122, HERE (where I was an artist in residence), Chashama, Dixon Place, and Movement Research, among others; I have also toured to Minneapolis, Philadelphia and the Cleveland Performance Art Festival.

I am currently working as an actor with Elevator Repair Service, with whom I have performed the extraordinary six-hour piece called Gatz on tour in Europe and the U.S. We are currently making a new show, which will premiere in May 2008 at New York Theatre Workshop. I have also performed in the work of several directors, choreographers and composers, including but not limited to Richard Maxwell, DJ Mendel, Tory Vazquez, and Andrea Kleine.

Offstage, I've read my writing on public radio, and published it in The Village Voice, and the print journals Clackamas Literary Review, Contemporary Theatre Review, Mudfish and Hobart.

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	BIO I write plays and monologues that draw on theater, dance, installation, and the occasional cheap pratfall. My shows have been performed everywhere from a midtown office to a shotgun house to a black box theater; my characters often talk very quickly, they sound gracefully awkward and real (I hope). I've been writing and performing since 1993 but I could read before I could talk. My full-length pieces include What You've Done, Desk, Family Establishment, and three collaborative works, Wreckage, Cakewalk and How To Get By And Be Easily Understood. I've also made a few shorter pieces. I'm currently working on two new shows: Open House, which will premier in February 2008, produced by The Foundry Theatre; and Love Story, premiering in November 2008 at the EFA Gallery, with a possible jaunt to London earlier in the year. My previous work has been presented at PS 122, HERE (where I was an artist in residence), Chashama, Dixon Place, and Movement Research, among others; I have also toured to Minneapolis, Philadelphia and the Cleveland Performance Art Festival. I am currently working as an actor with Elevator Repair Service, with whom I have performed the extraordinary six-hour piece called Gatz on tour in Europe and the U.S. We are currently making a new show, which will premiere in May 2008 at New York Theatre Workshop. I have also performed in the work of several directors, choreographers and composers, including but not limited to Richard Maxwell, DJ Mendel, Tory Vazquez, and Andrea Kleine. Offstage, I've read my writing on public radio, and published it in The Village Voice, and the print journals Clackamas Literary Review, Contemporary Theatre Review, Mudfish and Hobart. Download a complete resume.