Name Aaron Posner Children Maisie Posner Plays My Name Is Asher Lev | Spouse Erin Weaver Role Playwright | |
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Awards The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical Nominations Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director of a Play — Hayes Production Similar People Michael Hollinger, Holly Twyford, Patrick McDonnell, Teller, Kate Eastwood Norris | ||
How playwright aaron posner and director andy white brought life sucks to life
Aaron Posner is an American playwright and theatre director. He was co-founder of the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia. He has directed over 250 productions at major regional theatre companies across the country. He has won many awards including five Helen Hayes Awards, two Barrymore Awards, the Outer Circle Critics Award, The John Gassner Prize, a Bay Area Theatre Award, an Eliot Norton Award, and many more.
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- How playwright aaron posner and director andy white brought life sucks to life
- An interview with terrence j nolen and aaron posner
- Interview with aaron posner and teller of penn teller
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Born in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Posner is married to actress Erin Weaver and has one daughter.
Among Posner's best known adaptions are The Chosen (1999), based on Chaim Potok's 1967 novel of the same name and My Name Is Asher Lev (2009), based on Potok's 1972 novel. His 2013 adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 1896 play The Seagull under the title of Stupid Fucking Bird was premiered in 2013 by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and has since been produced by theatre companies and universities all across the country. He has adapted Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" and "The Three Sisters" as well. The former is called "Life Sucks" and the later "No Sisters". His re-imagining of "The Merchant of Venice" is called "District Merchants".