Adaptation Generation: The Jewish Holiday Edition
Date : Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Duration : 1 hours 30 minutes
October 7 – November 11, 2025 (Six Selected) Tuesdays, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Tuesdays, October 7 – November 11, 2025
7:00 PM–8:30 PM On Zoom
$275 / $250 for EDCJCC Members, Theater J Donors and Subscribers
Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 2, 2025
The stories of the great Jewish Holidays are rich in metaphor, character, plot, action, meaning, and more- the stuff from which great theater can spring! In this class, we will explore the Purim and Pesach stories and how they might be brought to the stage through each student’s individual lens. Then we will play with a little bit of writing, conceptualization, design… and how you might bring these great stories to life on stage in unique and surprising ways.
Aaron Posner is a theatre director, playwright, teacher, former Artistic Director, and a tenured Full Professor in the Department of Performing Arts at American University. Aaron has directed nearly 200 productions at major regional theaters across the country including nearly every theatre in the DMV. For Theatre J he wrote and directed his own adaptation of THE CHOSEN, and his play LIFE SUCKS, based on UNCLE VANYA. He also directed EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED and OCCUPANT at Theatre J. As a playwright, his re-imaging of Chekhov’s The Seagull, entitled Stupid Fucking Bird, was one of the ten most produced plays in the country in 2015 and has had more than 250 productions worldwide. His other widely produced and published plays include My Name Is Asher Lev, JQA, No Sisters, District Merchants, Who Am I This Time? & Other Conundrums of Love and many more. He has won more than 20 regional theatre awards, including six Helen Hayes Awards, two Barrymore Awards, a Jeff Award, an Eliot Norton Award, The Outer Circle Critics Award, and the John Gassner Prize.
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