Aaron Mark is a writer and director of theatre, audio, film, and TV, currently based in Los Angeles by way of Houston and New York City. He is the creator, writer & director of Gimlet Media/Spotify's hit fiction podcast The Horror of Dolores Roach, starring Daphne Rubin-Vega, Bobby Cannavale, Richard Kind, Vanessa Williams, Michael Urie, Lea DeLaria, Donnell Rawlings, and Amy Ryan. Aaron also adapted and co-showran the TV incarnation of Dolores Roach for Blumhouse Television, starring Justina Machado and featuring Cyndi Lauper, which will premiere on Amazon Prime in 2023.
Aaron has written & directed three acclaimed one-person horror plays Off-Broadway: Empanada Loca (LAByrinth Theater Company with Daphne Rubin-Vega; 3 Drama Desk nominations, Outer Critics Circle nomination), Squeamish (All For One at Theatre Row with Alison Fraser; OCC nomination), and Another Medea (All For One at the Cherry Lane and Wild Project with Tom Hewitt), all published by Dramatists Play Service and produced internationally. Other plays include Deer, also published by DPS, and The Vanishing Negative, starring Betty Buckley, for Audible Theater. Theatre directing credits include Ben Rimalower's long-running, award-winning Patti Issues and Bad with Money; The Mystery of Irma Vep and Deathtrap for Berkshire Theatre Group; and Hedwig and the Angry Inch for BC/EFA at New World Stages. Aaron is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and a member of the Writers Guild West and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
