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Apparently, STUCK ELEVATOR flunked…

By aaron | Published: October 26, 2011
…our first Sundance Theatre Lab (Spring 2011 in Banff, Canada), so they’re bringing it back to try again. This time, they’re bringing me and Byron, director Chay Yew, dramaturg Polly Carl, music director Vadim Feichtner and company to the 2012 Sundance Theatre Lab at White Oak, a nature preserve in Florida. My mom: “How come [...]
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We are a pilot.

By aaron | Published: October 26, 2011
NEFA selected STUCK ELEVATOR as one of their National Theatre Pilot projects, which may help you with $ if your venue wants to be part of our world tour (which begins at HERE in January 2013, then goes to the 2013 International Festival of Arts & Ideas and beyond).
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I am not “busy.”

By aaron | Published: October 1, 2011
I’m doing a lot of things. “Busy” was my catch-all negative word, code for “overwhelmed,” or “the exasperating buzzing noise of many projects mobbing each other in my brain,” or even “the *&%$! reason I can’t hang out/do your project/eat.” Using the word “busy” made me feel “busy,” so I’ve stopped using it. Now I [...]
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charge

By aaron | Published: June 25, 2011
This summer, I’m performing my hip-hop poetry at a venue near you (That is, if you happen to be in New Haven on July 1st for Free 2 Spit, or GIA in Castleton, VT on July 7th, or the World Fellowship Center in Conway, NH on July 16th.) Jon Rua and Yayo Serka collaborated with [...]
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Still stuck.

By aaron | Published: February 6, 2011
STUCK ELEVATOR has been selected for the 2011 Sundance Theatre Lab. Me and Byron’s comic-rap-scrap-metal-music-theatre-craziness will be trapped at Sundance’s 2011 Theatre Institute in Banff, Canada from March 27-April 17.
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Be ill.

By aaron | Published: January 26, 2011
Hip-hop choreographers Kwikstep and Rokafella, human beatboxers Adam Matta and Yako 440, director Christopher Edwards and I are creating HOW TO BREAK – using hip-hop movement, rhyme, vocal percussion, and theatre to tell the stories of teenagers learning to live while their bodies are breaking. HOW TO BREAK was born at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s [...]
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  • About Aaron

    Aaron Jafferis is a hip hop poet and playwright. Read his bio, his CV, or contact him.