Theatre and Dance Faculty

Jay Berkowitz
Bob Bytnar
Rebecca Field
Yoko Hashimoto-Sinclair
Thomas Haughey
Leonard Kelly
Joan Mary Morgan
Harvey Rovine
Elizabeth Staruch
Gretchen Studlien-Webb
Juliet Wunsch

Aaron Oster
Adjunct/ Theatre

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Phone: 610-738-0528

Curriculum Vitae

Education
BA in Theatre Arts, University of Iowa
MFA in Directing, Ohio State University

Aaron Oster hails from Iowa City, Iowa. After receiving his BA in Theater Arts from the University of Iowa in 1995, Aaron lived and worked in Minneapolis, where he directed with the Southern Theater, Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, and the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

He migrated east to Philadelphia after completing an MFA in Directing at Ohio University in 2003.  Recent local productions include What I Heard about Iraq (Theater of War), Back to the Boulevard (Theatre Ariel), Spring Awakening (Assoc. Director, EgoPo Productions), Dreamers, Demons & Queens (Theatre Ariel), Tape (T.O.W Theater/Theater Catalyst) Your Urgent Assistance (PDC/ 2005 Fringe Festival), Oedipus/Shadow (CEC New Edge), Rimers of Eldritch (Academy Repertory Theatre Company), Obedience (Pequod Industrial Theater/Fringe 2004), Ripped!  from Local Headlines (PDC/Fringe 2004)  and Queen of the Sea (co-director, puppet & mask designer, Theatre Ariel).  

Aaron has also worked on script development & dramaturgy with playwrights from the Philadelphia Dramatists Center, Theatre Ariel, PhiladelphiaYoung Playwrights, and the Spruce Hill Writers Group.  Aaron was theProducer of PDC's 2004-05 First Monday reading series, and recently acted in Mum Puppettheatre’s The Wizard of Oz, Theater Horizon's The Laramie Project and the local independent film Headspace. He has designed sound in Philadelphia for Flashpoint’s Faculty Room, Theatre of War’s What I Heard About Iraq, and for Theatre Ariel’s A Time to Laugh.

Aaron is a Resident Director & Dramaturg with Theatre Ariel, an AssociateArtist of Mum Puppettheatre, and is a recipient of the 2004 CEC New Edge Residency Award for Theater.  He teaches regularly with thePhiladelphia Shakespeare Festival, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, and the Wilma Theater Studio School, and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at West Chester University.

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