About Me

Aaron Oster

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 Salvation Road (Art Riot Theatre Co., Philly Fringe 2009), Bash (Crooked Mirror, Philly Fringe 2008), Home (Delaware Theatre Company Young Playwright’s Festival), Silly Tales (Theatre Ariel), 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, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, and the Spruce Hill Writers Group.  Aaron was the Producer 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’sWhat I Heard About Iraq, Theatre Ariel’s A Time to Laugh, and for Luna Theatre’s Orange Flower Water, Hot and Throbbing and Slasher.

Aaron is a Resident Director & Dramaturg with Theatre Ariel, an Associate Artist of Mum Puppettheatre, and is a recipient of the 2004 CEC New Edge Residency Award for Theater.  He teaches regularly with the Philadelphia 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.