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Aaron Landsman is an arts administrator, fundraiser and theater artist living in Brooklyn. Landsman guest lectures regularly at Columbia University's MFA Program for Visual Artists, Parson's School of Design, and the Artists in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. He has co-developed an artist-centered professional development workshop with the Creative Capital Foundation.
This workshop has been taught in more than a dozen cities nationwide and has been recognized for its innovative approach to fundraising, strategic planning and PR/Marketing for individual artists. He also teaches an annual producing course at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Undergraduate Drama Department, and for many years taught a fundraising workshop for graduate students at NYU's Dance Department. Additionally, over the last four years, Landsman has been a production and artistic advisor at The Juilliard School. He has been a panel moderator for the Rockefeller Foundation, a nominator for the Tides Foundation, and a consultant to many artists and organizations including Elevator Repair Service Theater, Chashama and Equus Projects. From 1998-2000, Landsman was the first-ever Development Director at The Field, an artist-run service organization in New York. With The Field, he developed several programs, including an out-of-town residency, alternative touring network, and re-granting program.
Landsman's solo and collaborative performance works have been presented locally by PS 122, HERE, Chashama, Movement Research, and Dixon Place, among other spaces, and in Houston, Minnesota, Cleveland and Philadelphia. His monologues have been aired on public radio in New York and the Midwest. Since 1996, Aaron has created four full-length productions: What You’ve Done (2005), a theater installation commissioned by DiverseWorks in Houston, and co-produced by Project Row Houses and Infernal Bridegroom Productions; Family Establishment (2003), performed in a barroom, Desk (2001-02) staged in an abandoned office; and Wreckage (1998) a two-man physical comedy. His new work is being commissioned by The Foundry Theater Aaron’s writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Hobart, Mudfish, and several online journals. His work has twice been commissioned by the Jerome Foundation, and he has received production funding from the several foundation and government funders. Currently performing with Elevator Repair Service Theater, Landsman has also worked with many directors, composers, and choreographers including Richard Maxwell, DJ Mendel, Tory Vazquez, and Joshua Fried, appearing at such spaces as SoHo Rep, The Williamstown Theater Festival, the Ontological Theater, and Dance Theater Workshop.
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