Author: Aaron Landsman

Aaron Landsman is a writer, organizer and performance maker . His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Abrons Arts Center Artist Residency, a Princeton Arts Fellowship, and an ASU Gammage Residency. His projects have been commissioned and presented in New York by Abrons Art Center, The Chocolate Factory, The Foundry Theatre, EMPAC, and HERE and funded by Jerome, MAP, Mellon, Graham, NEFA, LMCC and the National Performance Network. Current work includes Perfect City, a 20-year art and activism collective working on gentrification, Language Reversal, a new theatrical work with collaborators in Serbia, Brazil and Nigeria and Night Keeper, a theatrical work about insomnia as a super power. He teachers at Princeton, has guest lectured at Princeton, ASU, Juilliard, NYU, Bennington and Bard, and co-created the Creative Capital Professional Development Program, was the first Development Director at The Field, and the first grants manager for the award-winning ensemble ERS Theater. He has performed with many artists, across the US and Europe, in Australia and on London’s West End. His book about participation, performance and democracy, No One is Qualified, co-written by Mallory Catlett, will be published by The University of Iowa Press in 2022. http://www.thinaar.com