Personal Info
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- 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 Ensemble Studio Theatre.
- 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.
- Formed Red Alert Club, with sister Dorothy and brother Joe, devoted to exploring the basement on Sunday mornings.
- 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 - You make it, it breaks. Then you cry. They tell you not to cry.
You
make a new one.
—Anna Aronson (age 5) - I like boogers; They taste good.
—Jake Aronson (age 2) - 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 - Where does your mind go when you piss?
—Larry Kornfeld - She has risked the ridiculous to achieve the sublime.
—Rolling Stone re. Joni Mitchell
Me and Eugene Ionesco
Princeton, 1978
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