Aaron Landsman is a Lower East Side-based theater artist, and a Lecturer at Princeton. He is a recent Guggenheim Fellow, Creative Capital Awardee and ASU Gammage Residency Artist. Current projects include Night Keeper, a new work commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater, soon to be released as an LP on the Hallow Ground label; All The Time in the World, performance of social media algorithms in the form of a card game.

Aaron’s performance works have been presented in New York by The Foundry Theatre, Abrons Arts Center, PS 122, The Chocolate Factory, and HERE, as well as in Houston, Phoenix, San Francisco, Boston and Minneapolis, and internationally in Norway, Serbia, Australia and the UK. From 2012-14 his participatory project City Council Meeting, created with Mallory Catlett and Jim Findlay, was presented in five US cities. That project is chronicled in Aaron’s new book The City We Make Together, co-authored with Catlett, published by the University of Iowa Press. In 2016 Landsman formed Perfect City, a 20-year, art and research collective looking at Gentrification and city planning. Based at Abrons Arts Center; Perfect City is currently funded by Creative Rebuild New York, the NEA and LMCC.

Aaron is a company member of the acclaimed ensemble Elevator Repair Service Theater, with whom he has performed Off-Broadway, on tour internationally and on London’s West End. He works as a freelance director, librettist and dramaturg, and has also appeared in the work of many artists. His recent articles, stories and poems have been published in RiverTeeth, Evergreen Review, Theater and The Washington Post.