Jules
Aaron
Jules Aaron has directed more than 250 stage and television productions including Equus, Death of a Salesman, Macbeth, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray (world premiere) and award-winning runs of Into the Woods, Cabaret, Company and Merrily We Roll Along.
Frequent stage venues include the New York Shakespeare Festival (Public
Theatre), the Humana Festival (Actors Theatre of Louisville), South
Coast Repertory and Pasadena Playhouse.
His credits
include a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, 18 Drama-Logue Awards, three
Backstage Garland Awards, five Dean Goodman Awards and three Bay Area
Theater Awards, among many others. He is also former Artistic Director
of Grove Shakespeare Festival. He has directed Julianne Moore, Don
Cheadle, Billy Zane, John Vickery, Jane Carr, David Birney, Ralph
Waite, Joan Van Ark and Bruce Davison, among others.
Dr.
Aaron earned his Ph.D. in Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory
from New York University. For 17 years, he served as head of the MFA
Directing Program at California Institute of the Arts. He has also
taught directing, acting and drama at University of California at
Riverside, California State University Northridge, New York Institute
of Technology and other colleges. He is currently on the faculty of the
American Academy of Dramatic Art. He is recipient of the UC Davis
Department of Theatre & Dance Granada Artist-in-Residence, Fall
2007.
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