Aaron Landsman

CURRENT AND RECENT PROJECTS

JUST CLOSED - Open House - 24 Performances in 24 Living Rooms

Last year, The Foundry Theatre commissioned my newest play, Open House, which was performed in a different apartment each night. A comedy of romantic failure told in hindsight, a futuristic real estate seminar, and a neighborhood meeting about the changing city, it was my first show fully-produced in New York in five years. The piece was directed by Melanie Joseph and starrred the lovely and talented Raul Castillo, Heidi Shreck and Paul Willis.

(LISTEN TO A WNYC RADIO STORY ON THE SHOW)

ERS' Sound and Fury and Gatz- On Tour in 2008 and 2009

ERS, recently closed The Sound And The Fury (April Seventh, 1928), our first Off-Brodway production. The show got raves in The New Yorker, The New York Times and other publications, and we are gearing up for tours to LA, Lisbon, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Vienna in the next year. Directed by John Collins, the work features the non-stop action, adventure and antics of Susie Sokol, Mike Iveson, Greig Seargent, Tory Vazquez and many many more. We are also still touring Gatz, our six-hour verbatim presentation of The Great Gatsby like you've never seen in verbatimly presented before. We're going to Dublin, Chicago, Troy, and Sydney with that one. Go to ERS' website for all the details.

Europica - A Project With Free Theater of Belarus - March 2009

Free Theater of Belarus, a group of dissident playwrights, directors and actors I've gotten to know in Minsk (home of Europe's last dictatorship), have commissioned 12 playwrights to create new plays around the common theme of "A changing Europe and its challenges." We got together in Minsk last month to read the first drafts, and the project premieres in October in Lund, Sweden. Free Theater has gained the attention of playwrights like Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter, both for the struggles they endure to make their work, and the lovely work they produce. Other countries represented in Europica include Sweden, Turkey, UK, Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Romania, Belarus, and Macedonia. (Read more about the project here).

How To Kill Yourself And Why - 2008-09

My first play for a theater space in several years, this is a three-character comedy about suicide, religious faith and punk rock. Performed on a junk store cable-access soundstage that may also be the afterlife, a monk, a hipster and a talk show hostess walk into a bar and perform an exorcism, a wake, a laugh riot of grief. This piece is being developed with director Paul Willis, through a residency at The University Setllement. We are looking for a venue to premiere the work in Fall 2009.

Love Story

Love Story is a collaboration with photographer Adam Cohen; it is a walking tour and monologue that borrows liberally from artists like David Hancock and Janet Cardiff, among others. This past spring I did a version of Love Story in Austin, Texas at The Fuse Box Festival/Refraction Arts. The work is about urban anonymity, voyeurism and, yes, love. Here's a link to an article in The Sunday Austin Statesman

STORY

"The Story I Would Tell You" - Now

Clackamas Literary Review has published my story "The Story I Would Tell You." It's out now, available wherever obscure literary journals are sold.


	CURRENT AND RECENT PROJECTS JUST CLOSED - Open House - 24 Performances in 24 Living Rooms READ THE PRESS Last year, The Foundry Theatre commissioned my newest play, Open House, which was performed in a different apartment each night. A comedy of romantic failure told in hindsight, a futuristic real estate seminar, and a neighborhood meeting about the changing city, it was my first show fully-produced in New York in five years. The piece was directed by Melanie Joseph and starrred the lovely and talented Raul Castillo, Heidi Shreck and Paul Willis. (LISTEN TO A WNYC RADIO STORY ON THE SHOW) *ERS' Sound and Fury* and Gatz- On Tour in 2008 and 2009 ERS, recently closed The Sound And The Fury (April Seventh, 1928), our first Off-Brodway production. The show got raves in The New Yorker, The New York Times and other publications, and we are gearing up for tours to LA, Lisbon, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Vienna in the next year. Directed by John Collins, the work features the non-stop action, adventure and antics of Susie Sokol, Mike Iveson, Greig Seargent, Tory Vazquez and many many more. We are also still touring Gatz, our six-hour verbatim presentation of The Great Gatsby like you've never seen in verbatimly presented before. We're going to Dublin, Chicago, Troy, and Sydney with that one. Go to ERS' website for all the details. Europica - A Project With Free Theater of Belarus - March 2009** Free Theater of Belarus, a group of dissident playwrights, directors and actors I've gotten to know in Minsk (home of Europe's last dictatorship), have commissioned 12 playwrights to create new plays around the common theme of "A changing Europe and its challenges." We got together in Minsk last month to read the first drafts, and the project premieres in October in Lund, Sweden. Free Theater has gained the attention of playwrights like Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter, both for the struggles they endure to make their work, and the lovely work they produce. Other countries represented in Europica include Sweden, Turkey, UK, Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Romania, Belarus, and Macedonia. (Read more about the project here). *How To Kill Yourself And Why - 2008-09* My first play for a theater space in several years, this is a three-character comedy about suicide, religious faith and punk rock. Performed on a junk store cable-access soundstage that may also be the afterlife, a monk, a hipster and a talk show hostess walk into a bar and perform an exorcism, a wake, a laugh riot of grief. This piece is being developed with director Paul Willis, through a residency at The University Setllement. We are looking for a venue to premiere the work in Fall 2009. *Love Story* Love Story is a collaboration with photographer Adam Cohen; it is a walking tour and monologue that borrows liberally from artists like David Hancock and Janet Cardiff, among others. This past spring I did a version of Love Story in Austin, Texas at The Fuse Box Festival/Refraction Arts. The work is about urban anonymity, voyeurism and, yes, love. Here's a link to an article in The Sunday Austin Statesman STORY "The Story I Would Tell You" - Now Clackamas Literary Review has published my story "The Story I Would Tell You." It's out now, available wherever obscure literary journals are sold.