Aaron Wilton

Aaron Wilton

Aaron Wilton is a San Francisco-based playwright and actor. He was a founding member of the Actors' Reading Collective, the co-founding artistic director of Pig Brooch Theatre Company, artistic associate at 3Girls Theatre Company, producing associate artist at the Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience, company member & ambassador at PlayGround SF, artistic associate of South Pleasant Company...
Aaron Wilton is a San Francisco-based playwright and actor. He was a founding member of the Actors' Reading Collective, the co-founding artistic director of Pig Brooch Theatre Company, artistic associate at 3Girls Theatre Company, producing associate artist at the Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience, company member & ambassador at PlayGround SF, artistic associate of South Pleasant Company NYC and artistic adviser for Curan Repertory Company NYC. He's currently a member of both Actors' Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

“The play about a dick.” had its world premiere in the Czech Republic with the Prague Shakespeare Company and Alabaster Cat. Its US premiere was at Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company in Reno, NV the following year. It was selected for Capital Stage Company’s Playwrights’ Revolution New Works Festival, has received a co-pro staged reading with TheatreFirst & Symmetry Theatre, and won Honorable Mention at the 11th Annual Panndora's Box Festival of New Works.

“Happy Mundanes” performed at the Greenwich Street Theater for the NYC Fringe Festival (“[Wilton] makes the unbelievable expected and turns the usual on its head...presents the possibilities for change, excitement, and humor with vitality...” -NYTheatre review). He has had short plays performed at The Playwrights Foundation and PianoFight SF.

He's also an award-winning actor, voice-over artist and motion-capture artist, known for roles in film (Jexi, The Boat Builder, lead in the Pixar-produced short Messrs.), television (Criminal Minds, Sunset Glory: Doolittle's Heroes) and video games (Mafia: Definitive Edition, Watch Dogs 2, The Godfather II, Battlefield: Hardline, the NBA2K series), as well as commercials with Taco Bell, Xfinity, Wells Fargo, Blue Shield, Charles Schwab, Chase, Cisco, Adobe, EA Games, Pixar and Tejava. He is also a highly acclaimed theatre actor; notable productions include George Street Playhouse's "Inspecting Carol" (with Peter Scolari & Dan Lauria), Aurora Theatre Company's "John Gabriel Borkman" (with Karen Grassle), Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Western Premiere of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist "The Far Country," and a theatrical recording of Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird" (with Peter Macon). He has been directed for stage and/or voice by BD Wong, Daniel Handler, Judith Moreland, Jennifer Chang, James Ford Murphy and David Saint, among others. He was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity.

Contact: AaronMWilton@yahoo.com

Plays

  • The play about a dick. by Aaron Wilton
    Recommendations: 4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: gender parity, online dating + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental
    Keyword: gender parity, online dating, adultery, Sex, millennials, heartfelt, irony, bittersweet, awkward, bisexuality
    90 minutes, no intermission. A middle-aged woman, Enid, meets a younger man online for sex. But what starts as a simple rendezvous becomes a darkly comedic exploration of vulnerability, intimacy and empathy. After an unpredictable reaction, things become chaotic for Enid as her life gradually spirals outward. “The play about a dick.” examines themes of communication, guilt, kindness, solitude, gender roles...
    90 minutes, no intermission. A middle-aged woman, Enid, meets a younger man online for sex. But what starts as a simple rendezvous becomes a darkly comedic exploration of vulnerability, intimacy and empathy. After an unpredictable reaction, things become chaotic for Enid as her life gradually spirals outward. “The play about a dick.” examines themes of communication, guilt, kindness, solitude, gender roles, human connection, post-truth reality and existential vacuity. It’s also a play about a dick.

    “The Play about a Dick may not be what you expect, but you will feel the intense emotions that are examined in this 90-minute production. I found myself laughing uncomfortably from time to time as these deeper subjects are explored and trigger points were pushed...something special...Go see if you are looking for a dark comedy with the emphasis on dark.” -Reno Arts News

    “[The play about a dick] is a dark comedy that is extremely humorous...had the audience laughing out loud–and it wasn’t chuckles but hilarity coming from the audience...a Bravo on my rating scale...entertained and smiling when you walked out of the building.” -The Reno Gay Page

Recommended by Aaron Wilton

  • Perfect by Jonathan Luskin
    28 Jun. 2021
    “ Perfect is a hilarious and dynamic exploration of what it means to be a human, now and into the future. It follows three storylines in three timelines that weave through the a world greatly affected by CRISPR technology and social media and venture capitalism, creating an environment both terrifying and absurd. The characters are fun, the dialogue is witty and the themes are incredibly relevant to the here and now. ”