Aaron Jan

Play Production

Aaron Jan is a director, playwright, dramaturg and educator who has worked with theatres across Canada. He is one third of the critically acclaimed Silk Bath Collective, whose production of Woking Phoenix won the Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Dora Award as a part of Theatre Passe Muraille's 2023/2024 season. Aaron is the 2019 winner of the Ken McDougall Directing award, a 2021 Johanna Protege Recipient, the 2022 winner of Tarragon Theatre's Urjo Kareda Award, a co-recipient of the Aubry and Marla Dan Fund for new Musicals (with alaska B) and a co-recipient of the Rita Joe Playwriting Award (with Riel Reddick-Stevens). He is serving his fourth year as a casting associate for the Stratford Festival for the 2027 season and was a member of the 2025 Langham Director's Workshop cohort. aaronchihojan.wixsite.com/home

Directing Credits include: Liars at a Funeral (Upcoming - Capitol Theatre), The Healing (Centaur Theatre Winterfest), Woking Phoenix (co-directed w/Silk Bath Collective), The Alchemist, Cockfight, The Servant of Two Masters (Theatre Erindale), Give 'Em Hell (Theatre Direct), From Up Here (University of Winnipeg), Lucky (rEvolver Festival), Hookman (TMU), The Standard Sing (Factory Theatre), Kim's Convenience (Assistant Director - Soulpepper/Adam Blanshay Productions/US National Tour) and The Winter's Tale (Assistant Director - Stratford Festival).

Playwriting Credits Include: MEAT, Tiny Tenement of Terrors (Theatre Sheridan w/alaska B), Woking Phoenix (TPM/co-written with Silk Bath Collective), HAGS (Theatre @ York), SWAN (Little Black Afro), Rowing (Filament), Here (Theatre Aquarius TA2 Series)