Aaron Lockman

Aaron Lockman

Aaron Lockman is an actor, playwright, theatre critic, podcaster, puppeteer, and complex human who can't be easily categorized, dammit. They identify as non-binary and bisexual, and their plays tend to center around queer characters in fantastical settings.

Their plays have been performed at Jackalope Theatre, the Playground Theatre, the Point Theatre Project, Columbia College, and the...
Aaron Lockman is an actor, playwright, theatre critic, podcaster, puppeteer, and complex human who can't be easily categorized, dammit. They identify as non-binary and bisexual, and their plays tend to center around queer characters in fantastical settings.

Their plays have been performed at Jackalope Theatre, the Playground Theatre, the Point Theatre Project, Columbia College, and the Theater at Monmouth. You can also hear his voice on several audiobooks, including Locke and Key, The X-Files: Cold Cases, and Hot Dog. They are also a theatre critic and editorial assistant at the website Rescripted.org, which focuses on bringing young and diverse voices into the critical sphere.

He also has a YouTube channel (youtube.com/AaronLockman) where you can watch his one-man show, The Gallery of Obsessive Crushes. Aaron enjoys playing with Legos, talking excitedly about TV shows, long walks on the beach, and hunting unicorns.

Plays

  • Gun on the Desk by Aaron Lockman
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 7 more
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    Keyword: Politics, power + 5 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller, political, satire, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: Politics, power, privilege, noir, buddy tragedy, friendship, hope and despair
    A deadly alien threat is fast approaching Valencia, a remote human colony on a distant planet. When young bureaucrat Jensen Hole arrives from Earth with the promise of help, civic leader Jennifer Kohl has reason to be suspicious — can he be trusted? Why does he talk so weird? And can they put aside their vast political differences in time to save the colony?

    In this sci-fi noir buddy tragedy,...
    A deadly alien threat is fast approaching Valencia, a remote human colony on a distant planet. When young bureaucrat Jensen Hole arrives from Earth with the promise of help, civic leader Jennifer Kohl has reason to be suspicious — can he be trusted? Why does he talk so weird? And can they put aside their vast political differences in time to save the colony?

    In this sci-fi noir buddy tragedy, questions of politics, power, and privilege converge. Is it possible to be friends with somebody on the opposite end of the political spectrum? How do you acknowledge your own privilege when it's often invisible to you? And, like. . . what are space aliens up to these days? What's their deal?
  • Blinking Blue Light by Aaron Lockman
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: musical, drama + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, movement/physical, musical
    Keyword: musical, drama, dark comedy, college, coming of age, high school, female friendship, trauma, abuse, LGBTQ
    Two young women must redefine their long-distance friendship when secrets from the past resurface. Meanwhile, Virginia is obsessed with a mysterious blinking blue light out by the Adler Planetarium. In this hourlong not-musical, our protagonists must wrestle with questions of empathy, honesty, trauma, and friendship.
  • Superheroes in Love by Aaron Lockman
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 9 more
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    Keyword: vignettes, helping others + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, farce, parody/spoof, romantic comedy, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: vignettes, helping others, altruism, heroes, heroism
    What do you do when helping people doesn't make you feel any better? From a fairytale castle in France to a dreary industrial neighborhood on Pluto, heroes big and small must grapple with the messy emotional business of helping others in this series of seven vignettes.
  • The Ghost Boy by Aaron Lockman
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: Childhood, growing up + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, satire, young audiences
    Keyword: Childhood, growing up, ghost story, ghost hunting, TV shows, Maine, bedtime stories, ghosts, fairy tale
    In suburban Maine, a young woman reckons with her past as she tells the story of the apparition who walks down her street every night, and the ghost-hunting TV host who ruined it all.
  • The Gallery of Obsessive Crushes by Aaron Lockman
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: solo show, solo performance + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, satire
    Keyword: solo show, solo performance, romance, crushes, unrequited love, Bisexual men, bisexuality, autobiography, Memoir
    Have you ever wished there was a mathematical scale on which you could chart love? Have you ever yearned for a TED talk about roommate-specific sexual fantasies? The Gallery of Obsessive Crushes is a solo performance piece, written and performed by Aaron Lockman, in which the names are fake but the drama is real. Watch your favorite confused bisexual Jew lay bare the spicy details of his love life (all in an...
    Have you ever wished there was a mathematical scale on which you could chart love? Have you ever yearned for a TED talk about roommate-specific sexual fantasies? The Gallery of Obsessive Crushes is a solo performance piece, written and performed by Aaron Lockman, in which the names are fake but the drama is real. Watch your favorite confused bisexual Jew lay bare the spicy details of his love life (all in an extremely well-organized Powerpoint) to answer the question -- is "puttering" the sexiest word in the English language?