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UNCLE REMUS, His Life and Times, as told to Aaron Coleman
*The Old Globe 2023 Powers New Voices Festival, dir. Danilo Gambini
*Semi-Finalist, 2021 Princess Grace Award
*Selected for 2019 Primary Stages/ESPA Drills Series
THERE'S MORE TO THE TALE THAN ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH.
Uncle Remus’s Brer Rabbit folktales have enchanted Americans for over a century—no one more so than Aaron Coleman, a writer trying to find his own story in today’s world. Needing inspiration, Aaron finds himself in a plantation cabin in the late 1800s, face-to-face with the legend himself. As Remus starts spinning his wild stories, conjuring up a fantastical world of rabbits and foxes, he also reveals his untold life growing up in the antebellum South—a life that inspired his tales of family, courage, and survival.
UNCLE REMUS, HIS LIFE AND TIMES, AS TOLD TO AARON COLEMAN is a new play about visiting the stories of the past to understand the present—and reveals the ultimate truths about being a black storyteller in America.
*Semi-Finalist, 2021 Princess Grace Award
*Selected for 2019 Primary Stages/ESPA Drills Series
THERE'S MORE TO THE TALE THAN ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH.
Uncle Remus’s Brer Rabbit folktales have enchanted Americans for over a century—no one more so than Aaron Coleman, a writer trying to find his own story in today’s world. Needing inspiration, Aaron finds himself in a plantation cabin in the late 1800s, face-to-face with the legend himself. As Remus starts spinning his wild stories, conjuring up a fantastical world of rabbits and foxes, he also reveals his untold life growing up in the antebellum South—a life that inspired his tales of family, courage, and survival.
UNCLE REMUS, HIS LIFE AND TIMES, AS TOLD TO AARON COLEMAN is a new play about visiting the stories of the past to understand the present—and reveals the ultimate truths about being a black storyteller in America.
TELL ME I'M GORGEOUS AT THE END OF THE WORLD:
The Last Gay Play
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*Workshop Production, UCLA School of Theater, dir. David H. Parker, 2023
*Finalist, 2023 O'Neill Playwrights Conference *Semi-Finalist, Blue Ink Playwriting Award *Short List, 2022 Yale Drama Series Prize * 29-Hour Lab/Reading, The Workshop Theater, dir. Dominique Rider, 2021 YAS, BISH! This will be #BestSummerEver—and nothing will stop it. The party rages on in a fierce Fire Island home, and no one will ruin it. Not even two unexpected houseguests, who set off a reckoning of apocalyptic proportions. TELL ME I’M GORGEOUS AT THE END OF THE WORLD blows up the tropes of the gay party play—and shakes up theatrical genres quicker than a cosmo laced with poppers—to tell the tale of two men seeking a place in their community. But the world has other plans. |
Art: Moss Bastille
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE FAIRIES GONE?
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*Staged Reading — Feb. 2022
Brave New Works Festival with Brave New World Rep *Finalist -- The Lark's Playwrights' Week, 2019 In a Greenwich Village gay bar in 1968, two strangers meet. One is a Southern Black man who moved to New York to escape a world of intolerance. The other is an extravagant White man who escapes into old movies and gin martinis. As they stand at the intersection of the Civil Rights Movement and the nascent Gay Liberation Movement, the two men form a burgeoning relationship in a society built to keep them apart. |
Art: Taylor Morgan
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LEO'S BIG DAY OUT: A Musical
Music by Chuck Pelletier
Book and Lyrics by Aaron Coleman
Book and Lyrics by Aaron Coleman
*Virtual Production, Circle in the Square Theater School, 2021
It’s the perfect new musical for a brand new spring in New York! 8-year-old Leo has a dream: to go outside and sing with a real-life musician—if only his worrywart aunt would let him. But when their cat, Gata, escapes out the brownstone window, it’s up to Leo to save her. With the help of a couple fabulous new friends, Leo takes a big step outside and finds more than his cat—he finds his own voice, at last. LEO'S BIG DAY is a 45-minute musical written for young audiences.
It’s the perfect new musical for a brand new spring in New York! 8-year-old Leo has a dream: to go outside and sing with a real-life musician—if only his worrywart aunt would let him. But when their cat, Gata, escapes out the brownstone window, it’s up to Leo to save her. With the help of a couple fabulous new friends, Leo takes a big step outside and finds more than his cat—he finds his own voice, at last. LEO'S BIG DAY is a 45-minute musical written for young audiences.