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 - May 2008

I am continuing to work with ERS, and the company is in the studio now building a new adaptation, collage and willfull transgression of William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury. We premier next spring at New York Theatre Workshop - it's the company's first off-Broadway show. 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.

Europica - A Project With Free Theater of Belarus - October 2008

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 piece is a three-character comedy about suicide, religious faith and punk rock. Performed on a junk store TV 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 remembrance, and a Guitar Hero sing-along about the worst moments of our lives. This piece is being developed with director Paul Willis.

Love Story - November 2008

Love Story will be co-produced with the EFA Gallery in midtown next November. The piece 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. The Austin performanced feature a collaboration with Austin photographer Cory Ryan. Here's a link to an article in The Sunday Austin Statesman

NEW 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* - May 2008** I am continuing to work with ERS, and the company is in the studio now building a new adaptation, collage and willfull transgression of William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury. We premier next spring at New York Theatre Workshop - it's the company's first off-Broadway show. 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. *Europica - A Project With Free Theater of Belarus* - October 2008 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 piece is a three-character comedy about suicide, religious faith and punk rock. Performed on a junk store TV 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 remembrance, and a Guitar Hero sing-along about the worst moments of our lives. This piece is being developed with director Paul Willis. Love Story - November 2008 Love Story will be co-produced with the EFA Gallery in midtown next November. The piece 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. The Austin performanced feature a collaboration with Austin photographer Cory Ryan. Here's a link to an article in The Sunday Austin Statesman NEW 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.