Aaron Ricciardi is a New York City-based writer and performer, originally from Coral Springs, Florida. Aaron’s work has been produced and developed by Clubbed Thumb, the Playwrights’ Center, the New York Musical Festival (NYMF), Jewish Theatre of Bloomington, Stages Bloomington, and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, where he is a lyricist. His plays and musicals include The Star Killers, Only Child, A Bushel and a Peck, Nice Nails, and The Travels. Aaron graduated from the Theatre program at Northwestern University, where he studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt, and he received his MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University, where he studied under Peter Gil-Sheridan. Aaron is on faculty at SUNY New Paltz in their Creative Writing Program.
