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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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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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Refuge(es)

By aaron | Published: January 3, 2011
From Iraq, Afghanistan, Ghana, Congo, Cuba, Somalia, Guinea, Eritrea, Chad, Bhutan… I’m working with my hometown drama crew – Collective Consciousness Theatre (CCT) – and New Haven’s refugees – persecuted people from around the world – to create STORIES OF A NEW AMERICA – a series of multicultural, multilingual monologues and vignettes capturing true stories [...]
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Nicaragua

By aaron | Published: December 20, 2010
I spent a week in León, Nicaragua when I was 15, 16, and 17. That revolutionary city blew my mind. This February I went back, and began a theatre collaboration with the New Haven / León Sister City Project, Bregamos Community Theater, and the Yale Council of Latin American/Iberian Studies. We’re doing Theatre of the [...]
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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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  • "Jafferis is… a comic philosopher whose raps are sophisticated yet easily understood." -The Talent Report

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