Aaron Ricciardi is a New York City-based playwright, lyricist, essayist, and actor, originally from Coral Springs, Florida. He recently received his MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University (IU), where he studied under Peter Gil-Sheridan. Work includes Only Child; A Bushel and a Peck: a play for one actor; Nice Nails; Hanukkah Harriet, a play for young people; The Travels: an Epic play with songs (New York Musical Festival production); Resting Bitch Face (Tennessee Williams Festival One-Act Play Contest runner-up, judge Lisa D’Amour); Can I See Your Face?; Full of It, or Diana; The Canvasser; The Cousin With The Eyebrows; The Mush Pot; Yale; Fat Woman In Velvet; and Him & Her & Gay Men In General, which recently became a National Finalist for the Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award. Aaron is a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, and his writing has appeared in The Huffington Post. Aaron graduated from the Theatre program at Northwestern University, where he studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt, and he also studied Bouffon at with Philipe Gaulier in Paris. www.aaronricciardi.com