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Aaron Posner

Aaron Posner is a director, playwright, former Artistic Director, and a theatre professor at American University. Aaron has directed more than 150 productions at major regional theaters including Or, Stage Kiss, and A Murder, a Mystery & A Marriage at Round House Theatre. Plays he has written include JQAThe HealLife SucksStupid F***ing BirdNo SistersDistrict MerchantsThe ChosenMy Name Is Asher Lev, and many more. He has won six Helen Hayes Awards, two Barrymore Awards, an Outer Circle Critics Award, a Jeff Award, an Elliott Norton Award, a Bay Area Theatre Critics Award, The John Gassner Prize, an Off-Broadway Alliance Award, and others.