Jason Aguirre (he/him/el) is a queer, Mexican-American director, bookwriter, and choreographer based in New York, specializing in new work development. His work blends physical theatre, dynamic storytelling, and elements of immersive staging to create bold, theatrical experiences that demand active engagement—disrupting passive viewing and igniting conversations around power, identity, and society.

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As a director and dramaturg, Jason has developed and presented work at Ars Nova, Vineyard Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, HERE Arts, Judson Arts, The Tank, Pete’s Candy Store, and the Maker’s Ensemble. He is a SDCF Fellow (mentored by Susan Stroman), an alumnus of the Directors Group at Roundabout Theatre Company, and a graduate of the George and Joy Abbott MFA in Musical Theatre Collaboration at Temple University, where he was a Future Faculty Fellow. He was the 2021 Artistic Producing Fellow at Vineyard Theatre and the 2024 Boris Sagal Fellow at Williamstown Theatre Festival.

 

As an associate and assistant director, he has worked with Anne Kauffman,

Rachel Chavkin, Walter Bobbie, and Darko Tresnjak. His recent and upcoming directing credits include THIRD SEX: 1930s TRANSVESTITE LIEDER (Ars Nova’s ANT Fest) and THE SINS OF SOR JUANA (Fordham University).

 

Jason is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a founding member of Theatre Now’s National Musical Writers Group. His musicals in development include PUBLIC DOMINANCE — an insurance pamphlet wrapped in a rom-com wrapped in a superhero movie, and BRANDED – a Sci-Fi musical dark comedy about social media tags and labels and tags.

 

As a producer and artistic leader, he is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of UNTITLED Musical Project, a not-for-profit supporting marginalized musical theatre writers from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and intersecting identities.

 

Jason is a member of the Dramatists Guild, an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), and serves as the Associate Artistic Director / Producing and Outreach for the

Vineyard Theatre.