Aaron Posner

Summary
A darkly comic, metatheatrical re-imagining of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. A woman returns to her ancestral home and reunites with her deeply complicated family and friends whom she hasn’t seen in five years. Old memories, old flames, and old wounds collide with a devastating prospective future: selling the beloved estate and land to developers.

Bio
Aaron Posner is a director, playwright, teacher, former Artistic Director, and a Professor at American University. He was the founding Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company, and the Artistic Director of Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. He has directed nearly 200 productions at major regional theaters across the country, including Arena Stage, American Repertory Theater, American Players Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Folger, Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, Seattle Rep, Signature Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Studio Theatre, and many more. As a playwright, his re-imaging of Chekhov’s The Seagull, entitled Stupid F**king Bird, was one of the ten most produced plays in the country in 2015 and has had more than 250 productions worldwide. His other produced and published plays include JQA, Life Sucks, No Sisters, District Merchants, Who Am I This Time? & Other Conundrums of Love, My Name Is Asher Lev, and several others.