Category Archives: Stuck Elevator

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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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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Elevator Institutionalized

By aaron | Published: July 5, 2010
STUCK ELEVATOR (music by Byron Au Yong, libretto by me) played two sold-out workshop performances at the 2010 International Festival of Arts & Ideas after being selected for a two-week workshop by the Yale Institute for Music Theater. Director Chay Yew took the “work” part of “workshop” rather seriously. Byron and I were stuck in [...]
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2009 in review

By aaron | Published: March 11, 2010
Aaron and composer Byron Au Yong are 2009-2010 Artists-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU to develop STUCK ELEVATOR – including readings at the Museum of Chinese in America (September) and Pearl Studios (November). Oregon Shakespeare Festival mixes Shakespeare with hip hop theatre artists Rokafella, Rickerby Hinds, the Q brothers, Joe Hernandez-Kolski, Audra Polk, Christopher [...]
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2007 in Review

By aaron | Published: December 8, 2007
Kingdom at 2007 NAMT festival. Aaron and Ian Williams’ hip hop / rock musical KINGDOM receives a 45-minute industry showcase reading at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s 19th annual Festival of New Musicals. Directed by José Zayas. Aaron named one of “50 to Watch” in The Dramatist. Collective Consciousness Theatre’s touring production of Shakespeare: [...]
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