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Aaron Landsman

Aaron Landsman is a New York-based playwright, performer, teacher, and organizer. His awards include a Creative Capital Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an ASU Gammage Residency, and a Princeton Arts Fellowship. His current and recent theater works include: Night Keeper, which premiered at The Chocolate Factory Theater last year, and will be released as an album on the Hallow Ground label this November; the libretto Follow, commissioned and premiered by Gaudeamus in The Netherlands, performed by Ensemble Klang, and presented at the Skirball Center in 2026; and the new work All The Time in the World, a game-based devised piece about collective self-regard and social media. Aaron’s book The City We Make Together, co-authored with Mallory Catlett, came out in 2022 from the University of Iowa Press, and his poems, essays and stories have appeared in journals and newspapers like The Washington Post, Theater Magazine, and Nimrod. Aaron is developing Perfect City’s School for Participation, an approach to organizing and civic action that draws on tools from live performance, popular education, and design. This work is piloting in Trenton, the Hudson Valley, and in other U.S. cities in collaboration with the National Civic League.