AARON COLEMAN

Playwright, Lyricist, Bookwriter

ColemanAaron1@gmail.com
AaronColemanWrites.com

COMMISSION
The Old Globe Theatre 2024

SELECTED HONORS
Selected Fellow Dramatists Guild Foundation Playwriting Fellowship 2022-2023
Artist-in-Residence New York Stage and Film 2023
Finalist O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2023
Semi-Finalist Blue Ink Playwriting Award 2023
Short List Yale Drama Series Prize 2022
Second Year Member BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop 2023-2024
Finalist R&D Group, The Civilians 2023, 2021, 2020
Two-time Finalist Jerome Fellowship, Playwrights’ Center 2022, 2021
Semi-Finalist Many Voices Fellowship, Playwrights’ Center 2022
Semi-Finalist Princess Grace Award 2021
Recipient Rockwell Scholarship, ESPA Primary Stages 2021-2022
Playwright-in-Residence Circle in the Square Theatre School 2020-2021
Finalist New York Theater Workshop 2050 Fellowship 2020

SELECTED PLAYS - FULL LENGTH

TELL ME I’M GORGEOUS AT THE END OF THE WORLD: The Last Gay Play
Workshop Prod. UCLA School of Theater, dir. David H. Parker June 2023
Finalist O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2023
Semi-Finalist Blue Ink Playwriting Award 2023
Short List Yale Drama Series Prize 2022
29-Hour Lab/Reading The Workshop Theater, dir. Dominique Rider 2021

UNCLE REMUS, HIS LIFE AND TIMES, AS TOLD TO AARON COLEMAN

29-Hour Lab/Reading The Old Globe Powers New Voices Festival 2023
dir. Danlino Gambini
Semi-Finalist Princess Grace Award 2021
Workshop/Reading ESPA Drills Series, Primary Stages, Lucille Lortel Theatre 2019

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FAIRIES GONE?

Reading Brave New Works Reading Series 2022
Brave New World Repertory Theatre, NYC
Finalist Playwrights’ Week, The Lark 2019

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MUSICALS
LEO’S BIG DAY OUT
Book and Lyrics by Aaron Coleman, Music by Chuck Pelletier
College Production Henry Ford College, dir. John Michael Sefel Nov. 2023
Virtual Staging Circle in the Square Theatre, dir. Jeanne Slater 2021

IMELDA—A New Musical

Book by Sachi Oyama, Music by Nathan Wang, Lyrics by Aaron Coleman
Production Pan Asian Rep, New York, dir. Tim Dang 2009
Production East West Players, Los Angeles, dir. Tim Dang 2005

STAY FOREVER: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield

Book co-written with Kristen Holly Smith
Workshop Renberg Theatre, Los Angeles, dir. Derick Lasalla 2008

TEACHING
Fundamentals of Playwriting, Circle in the Square Theatre School Spring 2022
Playwriting Workshop, Circle in the Square Theatre School Fall 2020

AFFILIATIONS
The Workshop Theater, Writers’ Intensive 2020-2022
Dramatists Guild Member
Playwrights’ Center Member
New Musicals, Inc. / Academy for New Musical Theatre (ANMT), Lyricist Member

RELATED THEATER EXPERIENCE

New Dramatists Literary Intern
Mark Taper Forum, New Works & Blacksmyths Festival Intern

EDUCATION
THE PRIMARY STAGES EINHORN SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS
Rockwell Scholarship, 2021 – 2022
Playwriting Instructors: Winter Miller, Chisa Hutchinson, Crystal Skillman, Rogelio Martinez
2017—2022

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, School of Cinematic Arts

MFA, Writing for Screen and Television

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

BA, Drama