Aaron Rothermund

DEATH, produced by art & lies productions.

2011-11-27T21:34:00.000-08:00

Aaron Rothermund appears as Hacker and Jack (policeman) in Woody Allen's play DEATH, directed by Rosanna Saracino. DEATH is a comedic version of Eugene Ionesco's 1959 play "The Killer."

Death has come to its end! We thank all of our wonderful audiences for supporting the sold out show at The Cadillac Lounge.

It was a fantastic launch for art & lies productions!

Aaron Rothermund directs: BROZEN

2011-10-20T08:20:00.000-07:00

Brozen
Written by Foad Hassan Poor

Directed by Aaron Rothermund
Assistant Stage Managed by Yi Zheng

Production Stage Manager- Tiffany Chan
Costume Designer- Shadib Bin Newaz
Set Designer- Lia Cavasotto
Lighting Designer- Alex Chow
Sound Designer- Alyksandra Ackerman

Cast
B.R.O.1/Yug..............................................Keyano Waite
B.R.O.2/Ug...............................................Jolly Amoako
B.R.O.3/Steve............................................Jeremy Cook
Thug/Nug.................................................Alex Fairlie
Lug......................................................Justin Buyukozer
Tug......................................................Ahamed Ferotan
Dug......................................................Thomas Sarigiannidis
Gaga.....................................................Simi Daljeet
Tata.....................................................Zainab Choudhery
Village Elder............................................Romina Julian
Zaza.....................................................Blessing A Emitah
Jaja.....................................................Chantelle Vaughan

258 Vanier College,
York University,
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario
416-736-2100 ext. 40023
www.vaniercollegeproductions.com

Madonna at TIFF

2011-09-12T22:46:00.000-07:00

Madonna at TIFF today! Brad and Angelina? Mainstream film festival taking over pockets of my Toronto. As i bike home from rehearsal at 1:00am I wonder why I have never been to one of the films? Mostly I hate lines and crowds are frightening...

The Underpants open this week!

2011-09-12T22:40:00.001-07:00

The Underpants
adapted by Steve Martin

September 16th-24th @ 8:00 PM
September 23rd & 24th @ 2:00PM

Tickets:

Adult $18
Student $15

Red Sandcastle Theatre
922 Queen Street East

Directed by: Evan Harkai
Stage Manager: Ada Tsang
Designer: Alejandra Galindo
Publicist: Abdi Omer

Louise Maske: Jenessa Grant
Theo Maske: Jon Ehrlick
Versati: Aaron Rothermund
Cohen: Mark Waters
Gertrude Deuter: Chrissi Chau
Klinglehoff: Elliot Paul Shermet

"The Underpants" originally written by Carl Sternheim and now adapted by the comedic genius of Steve Martin revolves around Louise Maske; an ignored housewife whose underpants unexpectedly fall down while watching the King's parade. Shortly after men start showing up under the guise of renting her and her husband Theo's spare room, but secretly hoping to have an affair with the mysterious woman whose underpants captured their lustful imagination. This fast-paced farce is a non-stop stream of witty jokes that poke fun at the uptight bourgeois lifestyle of pre-war Germany and its views of politics and sex within the middle-class.

www.coffeehousetheatre.com

Steady State at the Transac

2011-09-12T16:58:00.000-07:00

The Steady State play-reading was a fantastic success. I got to act along side Aldrin Bundoc and Adam Barrett in UNDEATH IN SUMMER written by the incomparable Liam Morris.

I saw some great work by other writers such as Maya Rabinovitch, Glyn Bowerman, and Erin Fleck to name a few. I can't wait for these plays to be on the stage!

ADR

Give a Little because Every Little Helps...

2011-06-03T16:20:00.001-07:00

In a state, AMBIGUOUS

2011-06-02T12:19:00.001-07:00

Hello All.

My hard drive crashed with all my files! My music, photos, and written work vanished. My bike had a flat tire. I lost 60 bucks!
C'est le vie!

With a smile from ear to ear I am gearing up for the next 5 weeks. :)

My new play AMBIGUOUS opens July 8 at the Annex Theatre as part of FRINGE 2011. We are rehearsing at Buddies in Bad Times and at The Arts and Letter Club. It looks like a special show!

We need some support.
Our fundraiser this Monday has been moved to Monday June 20th and I think it will be at the smiling Buddha. I would like to present some work from the show to tease the audience.

Let everyone you know in on the fun. Donations of $2 to Afterglow Theatre and they receive a AMBIGUOUS FRINGE 2011 pin.

A donation of $10 to the company gets them a ticket to one of our shows, and a pin.

Aaron R

Canadian Stage - Festival of Ideas and Creation

2011-05-13T09:39:00.001-07:00

Canadian Stage - Festival of Ideas and Creation
New Creations: Innovators Directing Program
Saturday May 21, 1:30 & 4:45 p.m. FREE.

Come watch our adaptation of "YERMA" by stage director, Ingrid Pleitez. Mentored by Beatriz Pizano and program facilitator Claire Calnan, featuring Aaron Rothermund, Suzette McCanny, Alexandra Manea, and Greg Willmot, all members of the Canadian Stage GYM Emerging Artist Program.

Afterglow Theatre presents "Ambiguous" at Toronto FRINGE

2011-03-21T21:52:00.000-07:00

The story "Ambiguous" revolves around Gabriel whom is trying to create the "perfect" character. Art imitating life. An ear-wig walks into his ear canal, and as he burrows through the cerebral cortex he collaborates with the writer on what qualities make up perfection. Together they become a GOD. The character "Kyle" appears and they put him under a microscope. When the writer and the ear-wig begin to disagree on the events of the story we see the downfall of Kyle. He cannot possibly live up to their idea of perfection, and Kyle feels abandoned by GOD.

Gabriel and the ear-wig have a serious argument about Kyle's sexuality, and survival kicks in, and Gabriel's brain creates the allegory Panic, and she decides to help create a perfect girl for Kyle. The ear-wig and Panic fight about the plan for Kyle, and Panic's character is rejected. The brain reacts with another defense mechanism called Hysteria. This time Hysteria creates a character for Kyle, and Panic sabotages her out of jealousy.

The ear-wig creates one more character, and this one changes everything. Gabriel loses his mind. The battle royale over Gabriel's brain can only have one left standing.

Goodbye Sara Hennessey Episode 1

2011-03-17T07:13:00.000-07:00

http://vimeo.com/20995475

The Next Scorsese HD (1 of 2)

2011-01-02T08:31:00.000-08:00

Pace Is The Trick

2011-01-02T08:14:00.000-08:00

Afterglow Theatre

2010-12-06T10:41:00.001-08:00

Directing.

Afterglow Theatre

2010-12-06T10:33:00.001-08:00

The agreement

Afterglow Theatre

2010-12-06T10:28:00.000-08:00

Pipes!

Afterglow Theatre

2010-12-06T10:11:00.000-08:00

The Pied Piper of Toronto Pictures

Cryptozoology Playground

2010-06-02T13:37:00.000-07:00

On June 4th 2010 Cryptozoology Playground performed the first version of "The Sky Dress" at the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival during the noon hour series. We had a great time.

The second version of "The Sky Dress" is shown at Clay & Paper Theatre's "Day of Delight" on June 20, 2010. PWYC Festival of Love in Dufferin Park 2-5, "The Sky Dress" at 4:30pm.

Come if you can.

Aaron

Join us for the 8th annual Day of Delight, a festival of Love, Courtship and Desire in and for Toronto! Theatre, music, dance, stiltwalkers, puppetry and more - all in beautiful Dufferin Grove Park.

The afternoon will feature:

· The Magnificent musical rhythms of Samba Elegua

· The World Premiere of the Bricoteer Puppetry Project's: Great Things Come in Pears

· Spectacular stilt dancing by Zita Nyarady and friends performing: The Sky Dress

· The Amazing Aerialist arts of Diane Mcgrath and friends presenting: Fantasia

· A divine dance piece by Paromita Kar and friends presenting: Detective Lizzarde

· A Passionate puppetry performance of love swimming between a squid and a whale in: Strangers in the Deep performed by Marc Picanto & Delia Farno

· A fantastic fibre arts installation and modern dance collaboration by Fibre Artists Emily Cook, Emily Comeau and dance artist Eden Kahill

· An enchanting worldly dance of love performed by Rainos Mutamba and Rehana Tejpar in Shadows of Desire

· The dazzling Georgian music of love by Darbazi!

· A whimsical version of Midsummers Night's Dream starring kitchen appliances!

· A giant bicycle puppet parade, Cardboardia a silent auction and performances by Clay & Paper Theatre's very own Cyclops: Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad celebrating it's second year of bringing theatreto cyclists and cyclists to the theatre, funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Bring someone you love to beautiful Dufferin Grove Park for this Delightful afternoon of theatre, music, dance and community arts!

For more info and to volunteer please contact naomi@clayandpapertheatre.org

We look forward to celebrating Day of Delight with you!

About Clay & Paper Theatre:

Out amongst the community bake-ovens and lush gardens of Dufferin
Grove Park, Clay & Paper Theatre has been changing the world. Completely.
Irrevocably. Medieval mystery plays, Punch and Judy shows, African myths,
Indonesian shadow puppetry, Native Canadian masks, commedia dell’arte -
all these and more have influenced Clay & Paper Theatre. The company
is built on the accumulative experience of David Anderson - theatre activist,
producer of new Canadian work, and defender of public space since 1969. This is
theatre on the ground, for the groundlings, in the park and on the street. This
is theatre of exaggeration, of giant puppetry, of satire and wit gone awry.
This is a little theatre company asking big questions with humour and
irreverence.

This is Clay & Paper Theatre.

Emperor

2010-03-10T12:18:00.001-08:00

Emperor rules

The energy generated by the three performers in Emperor, a work by young company Twitches & Itches, was enough to lift the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace off the ground by a couple of inches.

Or so it felt in the short piece, adapted by Colin Bruce Anthes from a pair of Majorcan folktales.

Under director Roselie Williamson, the trio played the titular character (Anthes) and his younger relatives, the prince (Aaron Rothermund) and the less clever Pedro (Glyn Bowerman). Stories involving Pedro bookended a longer section in which the emperor and the prince played cat-and-mouse over who would inherit the throne.

The Pedro material proved the more theatrical. The innocent if bungling Pedro, “dim as midnight,” always ignored common sense, mistaking a statue for a man and making a bargain with buzzing flies. The three actors played various human, animal and insect characters with comic zest.

The middle section, packed with too much narrative and stylistically relying on telling rather than showing, didn’t have the same audience draw. Still, Anthes and Rothermund metaphorically circled each other with some elegant parries and thrusts.

Review by

Jon Kaplan
NOW MAGAZINE

Twitches and Itches Theatre Presents
THE EMPEROR FUNDRAISER

A Glamorous Night of Wine, Chocolate Fondue, Steamwhistle Beer, Silent Auction Items and Performances By:

Allison Hogg & Sarah Tompson “I Don’t See Why Not” (Improv)
Zita Nayardy (Dance)
Cristina Taborda (Music)
Ryan G. Hinds (Music)

Please join us on March 13, 2010 from 8:00pm-12:00am Midnight at hub14 for a night of entertainment and fun, in an effort to raise funds for our upcoming production of EMPEROR, playing at TPM’s Backspace from April 6-10, 2010.

Cost is $10 and includes a drink ticket, food, and a chance to see some amazing performances.

All proceeds will go towards the theatre company to help cover the costs of the production thus far.
We are grateful to all and any who can come! If you would like to donate to the company but cannot make the fundraiser, please message us on facebook.

Twitches and Itches Theatre is a Toronto-based company that works on adapting folk tales from around the world.

Three actors. Two folktales. One crown. Emperor adapts a pair of fireside folktales from the island of Majorca into a twisting, exhilarating new play about crooked monarchs, the extent of greed, and the power wielded by kind, honest peasants.

Twitches and Itches Theatre Presents:
Emperor by Colin Bruce Anthes
Directed by Roselie Williamson
With Music by Tom DiMartino
Featuring Aaron Rothermund, Glyn Bowerman, Colin Bruce Anthes
Stage Managed by Holly Lloyd
Set and Costumes by Bryan Hall and Holly Lloyd
Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace April 6-10, 2010

2010-02-08T21:20:00.000-08:00

Nativity Play

2010-01-06T10:51:00.000-08:00

Aaron played the Archangel Gabriel in The Nativity Play in December. He donated his Actor fee to the project to support the church choir.

To view photos of the show visit:
http://flickr.com/gp/45764321@N07/3v8Wif

2009-12-05T07:41:00.000-08:00

2009-10-24T08:56:00.000-07:00

13. GYM STARS: Aaron Rothermund

Aaron … is a theatre artist of new and devised work. He joined Clay and Paper Theatre’s “Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad,” and in 2010 “Cyclops” will return to play in public spaces. Aaron proudly graduated the Humber Theatre Performance Program with honours, and an Acting Achievement Award.

Upcoming he will be performing in Lab Cab Festival. It takes place on Halloween and he performs "The Darkness Chapter" with two wonderful dancers in the Courtyard three times.

The Times: 4:30-4:45, 7:30-7:45, and 8:45-9:00pm.

Start Time: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 1:00pm

Location: Factory Theatre 125 Bathurst Street Toronto, ON.

2009-08-19T22:06:00.000-07:00

Afterglow Theatre

The company was founded by Aaron Rothermund, and is dedicated to creating original work that sparks the imagination. We strive to keep a minimal approach to props and sets, and instead use a physicality to create the atmosphere. We enjoy working on passionate themes, and want to explore primitive stories with a stylistic approach. Our goal is to produce work that is visually stunning while provoking thought.

Afterglow Theatre members come and go, but we all share a love of local stories, myths, fables, and we are dedicated to producing Canadian work.

History

The first project was to provide a workshop for the Topological Theatre youth acting company while they worked on a cabaret show based on violence. The show was then performed at LKTYP, along with Dead Ahead directed by Ed Roy.

The second project was an ambitious play about a magical world inside the trees of the Dufferin Grove Park. Afterglow Theatre submitted a play wrote by Stephan Roberts to the Cooking Fire Theatre Festival. The play was written to encourage young audiences to seek their ancestry.

The third project “Human Nature” written by Aaron Rothermund will be performed in front of an audience at “Patio Plays.” The festival is produced by Back-Burner Productions, and it will take place August 2009.

The Spire

The story began in a Queen Street walk-in clinic while I was waiting to get blood work. As I waited for the needle I witnessed how a woman behaved when she felt threatened by someone less socially desirable, and how other women reacted to her ability to gain control over the situation. I noticed the characters were alive, and they were sitting in front of me, and they were vibrant. I watched the loneliness of the waiting room pre-occupied with illness. I wanted to show how people could behave in a pressure cooker. The characters are trapped together and socialize as a form of defense. “Human Nature” was first produced at Humber in The New Play Festival directed by Maja Ardal with a wonderful cast! Since then I have re-worked the play, and decided to play one of the female characters. What became interesting to me are the inner lives of these characters – what do they show and what do they hide?

Aaron Rothermund
Afterglow Theatre

Human Nature

2009-08-12T08:15:00.000-07:00

Back Burner Productions

Patio Plays 2009

Join us on the patio for our 3rd annual summer arts festival, August 12 – 23!

Where: The In House Theatre at 11 Lonsdale Rd., Toronto, ON.
When: performances begin at 8:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
Art gallery opens half an hour before performances.
All shows are by donation only — pay what you can!

"Human Nature" a play written by Aaron Rothermund is being produced Aug 19th 8pm.

Clay & Paper Theatre: Cyclops Squad

2009-08-12T07:58:00.000-07:00

Out amongst the community bake-ovens and lush gardens of Dufferin Grove Park, Clay and Paper Theatre has been changing the world. Completely. Irrevocably. Medieval mystery plays, Punch and Judy shows, African myths, Indonesian shadow puppetry, Native Canadian masks - all these and more have been influencing Clay and Paper Theatre Company since its birth in 1994. This is theatre on the ground, for the groundlings, in the park and on the street. This is theatre of exaggeration, of giant puppetry, of satire and wit gone awry. This is a little theatre company asking big questions with humour and irreverence. This is Clay and Paper Theatre.

Clay & Paper’s new bicycle-based theatre project Cyclops: Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad, is a mobile performance squad that animates and energizes environmental and cycling events across Toronto from May to August, bringing theatre and cycling enthusiasm to the unsuspecting public.

As we take our unique brand of theatre to the streets, we develop new performance venues and enliven Toronto ’s public spaces while drawing attention to urban environmental issues and promoting active living. Thanks to funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Cyclops will be bringing the bicycle revolution to the city for the next 3 summers!

City of Wine: Pentheus

2009-06-07T09:17:00.001-07:00

Aaron played Bacchus in Pentheus. The show was performed at Theatre Passe Muraille in the City of Wine Festival.
To view photos of the show visit:

http://jlphoto.ca/CityOfWine.html

2009-05-09T11:08:00.000-07:00

Theatre Review: City of Wine

Posted: May 08, 2009, 1:32 PM by Maryam Siddiqi

toronto, Art and Culture, post toronto, theatre, review

By Robert Cushman, National Post

The Greeks with their all-day tragic festivals didn’t just invent drama. They invented the dramatic cycle, the experience of sitting in a theatre for a long time following one proliferating story. So it’s natural that later playwrights planning marathons should turn to the same material. Ned Dickens, an otherwise untried writer, has devoted seven plays, and 16 years of his life, to retelling the tale of Thebes, a sex-and-blood-drenched saga that peaks in the story of Oedipus but starts generations earlier. All seven are now being mounted in sequence in Toronto, in a kind of super-workshop, by seven different theatre schools from around the country, under the auspices of the professional company Nightswimming. It’s a dizzyingly ambitious feat of producing and, despite inevitable unevenness in writing and production, a dizzying achievement.

Pentheus (from Humber), the second play and the most impressive of the five I saw in preview this week, shows us the founding couple advanced in years and disillusion as their town, and especially its women, are possessed by the newly born god Dionysus, here called — with surprising inconsistency — by his Roman name of Bacchus. He brings wine, which becomes the city’s staple product and cultural identity; the lower orders are especially fond of it. This is the story told in Euripides’ Bacchae, culminating in the dismembering of Pentheus, the immature new king, by his own crazed mother.

The plays are written in verse, mainly blank: a sensible decision, but a perilous one. Iambic pentameter is an inherently conversational medium, but no dramatists since the Elizabethans have been able to use it unselfconsciously. When Dickens feels a lyrical lament coming on, the air turns fanciful and unconvincing. But he can also hack out a biting one-liner; when Pentheus calls the gods “pathetic pouting mockeries of man” he has a point, especially about Bacchus. They’re us at our worst, irresponsible because immortal. Ancient Greek theology is terrifying and convincing.

The stagings vary in style and accomplishment. Many actors double as musicians. One play features a hero who plays the lyre, which seems to be what we moderns call a mouth organ. Another features a Ukrainian folk band. A third obscures much vital exposition, by singing it over clangorous homemade accompaniment. Some directors put their performers in exposed positions, physically and emotionally, without giving them much support. But one production, Tatiana Jennings’ Humber Pentheus, is astonishing, from its initial display of rhythmically shuffling divinities, chanting in amplified whispers. It has a sound score by the great Richard Feren, and choreography (by Sharon Moore) whose hypnotically measured frenzy helps both author and actors to go head to head with Euripides’ masterpiece and survive. Its Bacchus (Aaron Rothermund) is properly, and unnervingly, faun-like, while if there were a professional production tomorrow this Pentheus (Colin Bruce Anthes), rash, uptight, spooked by sexual uncertainty, could go into it undaunted and unchanged.

City of Wine closes May 9 at Theatre Passe Muraille. For details, call 416-504-7529.

[The production of City of Wine involved 165 actors and artists. Photo by John Lauener.]

Pentheus

2009-03-23T05:29:00.001-07:00

Ned Dickens’ play 'Pentheus' explores the dark side of the Gods, fate, and the side effects of over indulgence. Humber Theatre presents the world premiere of this classic Greek tragedy, newly adapted by Ned Dickens.

Written by - Ned Dickens
Directed by - Tatiana Jennings
Set and Lighting Design - Stephan Droege
Costume design - Anna Romanovska
Choreography - Sharon Moore
Stage Management - Maria Costa

Performances are as follows:
Saturday, April 11th, 8pm
Sunday, April 12th, 2pm
Tuesday, April 14th, 8pm
Wednesday, April 15th, 8pm
Thursday, April 16th, 8pm
Friday, April 17th, 8pm
Saturday, April 18th, 2pm
Saturday, April 18th, 8pm

Ticket prices are as follows:
Adults: $15.00
Students/Seniors: $10.00
Alumni: $ 5.00

Call the Humber Theatre Box Office at 416-675-6622 ext. 3080 to reserve your tickets now!

A Field Guide to Fevers and Curses

2009-01-24T20:50:00.000-08:00

A Field Guide to Fevers and Curses
Inspired by the writings of Mike Geither

Humber Theatre
Kipling Avenue, south of Lake Shore Blvd. West

Phone: 416675662230 Email: humber.theatre@humber.ca
The second production of the Humber 08-09 season.

Directed by Karin Randoja & Raymond Bobgan
Set & Costume Design by Kelly Wolf
Lighting Design by Laird Macdonald
Stage Management by Maria Costa

Friday, Feb. 6th, 8pm
Saturday, Feb. 7th, 8pm
Sunday, Feb. 8th, 2pm
Tuesday, Feb. 10th, 8pm
Wednesday, Feb. 11th, 8pm
Thursday, Feb. 12th, 8pm
Friday, Feb. 13th, 8pm
Saturday, Feb. 14th, 2pm
Saturday, Feb. 14th, 8pm

Grimm

2008-12-02T12:07:00.001-08:00

Grimm is an adaptation of six Grimm Fairytales directed by Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith for Humber Theatre. This show is the first of three shows by the graduating ensemble of Humber Theatre. We welcome anyone who wants to come. The show is pure light and magic.

Time and Place
Friday, November 28, 2008 at 8:00pm to Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 8:00pm
Humber Studio Theatre (Building 'L')
on Kipling Avenue, South of Lakeshore Blvd. W.
Toronto, ON

Adapted & Directed by: Dean Gilmour & Michele Smith
Set & Costume Design: Julia Tribe
Lighting Design: Beth Kates
Stage Management: Maria Costa
Assistant Director: Dan Watson

$15 Adults $10 Students/Seniors $5 Alumni

Box Office: 416.675.6622 EXT.3080

**SHOW TIMES**
8:00PM Nov.28,29 Dec.2,3,4,5 & 6
2:00PM Nov.30 & Dec.6

By Subway: Get off at Kipling Station, take the 44 Kipling bus South, get off at Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive (ask bus driver and they will let you know when to get off)

By Streetcar: Take the Longbranch Queen streetcar west to Kipling Ave., get off and walk south to Humber Studio Theatre (Building 'L' on the left side behind Williams coffee pub)

Curbside BIkes Pashley Photo

2008-11-04T04:13:00.000-08:00

Sokalski Headshot

2008-10-23T17:34:00.001-07:00

The Next Scorsese Trailer

2008-10-23T16:19:00.000-07:00

Headshot (Black and White)

2008-10-23T16:13:00.000-07:00

"Pearl" music video

2008-10-22T19:38:00.000-07:00

Here's a glimpse of me in a friend's video. (2 minutes, 46 seconds in) Enjoy, the music's great too!

First Post!

2008-10-22T17:17:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of Aaron Rothermund. Soon I will post my resume, headshots, and other info about me. The image above is of a photo shoot I did for Tom Sokalski. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!