Personal Info
Clubs Willing to Have Someone Like Me for
a Member
- Member of Ensemble Studio Theatre.
- Member of the Playwrights Horizons archive.
- Served in VISTA, writing Plain Talk About the Law column for rural North Carolina newspapers.
- Selected for the Chai Society's Yale 300 most prominent Jewish Yale graduates.
- Work included in Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry for Kids, Parents, and Teachers.
- Honored with New York Foundation for the Arts playwriting grant.
- Invited to New River Dramatists writing center, in Healing Springs, North Carolina.
- Member of Writers Guild of America, the Dramatists Guild, and BMI.
- Received BA in English/theater from Princeton '79, MFA in playwriting from Yale Drama School '83.
- Pictured with collaborators on Google Images.
- Legal representation by Herzog Law Group.
- Web representation by Isotope Media.
- I live in Brooklyn with my wife Lisa Vogel and our children Jake and Anna.
Influences
- Joni Mitchell's Blue, Peter Handke, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Looney Tunes, Pilobolus, Jazz, The Brothers Grimm, Ambrose Bierce's Civil War stories, Camus' The Stranger, Wagner, Brecht/Weill, the Winnebago Trickster myth cycle, Doctor Strangelove, Sam Shepard's early one-acts, Georges Feydeau, Carol MacVey, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Parental Influences: Joanne Morgan (mom), Willard Aronson (dad)
Favorite Quotes About Playwriting
- Life does not cease to be serious when people laugh any more
than it ceases to be funny when people die.
—George Bernard Shaw - The most refined and profound emotional experience that a man
may
be honored with is the feeling of mystery.
—Albert Einstein - If you want to play something you just play it. You bang on it
or
blow on it until a sound comes out.
—Todd Rundgren - The structure [of the double helix] was too pretty not to be
true.
—James Watson - In all natural things there is something to move wonder.
—Aristotle - If you jump you might fall on the wrong side of the rope. But
if you're not willing to take the risk of breaking your neck, what
good is it?
—Picasso - You have to wake people up. Make them foam at the mouth. Force
them to understand that they're living in a pretty queer world.
—Picasso - She has risked the ridiculous to achieve the sublime.
—Rolling Stone re. Joni Mitchell - When you’re drowning you don’t say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream!
—John Lennon - I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.
—Donald Fagan and Walter Becker - Astonish me.
—Sergei Diaghilev to Cocteau - You make it, it breaks. Then you cry. They tell you not to cry.
You make a new one.
—Jake Aronson (age 5) - I like boogers; They taste good.
—Anna Aronson (age 2)
Me and Eugene Ionesco
Princeton, 1978
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