Aaron Posner

He was co-founder of the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia and was the artistic director of Two River Theater from 2006 to 2010.

He is married to six-time Helen Hayes Award winning actress Erin Weaver.

Since 2010 he has lived near Washington DC where he has worked at virtually every theatre in the area as a director and playwright.

The play has since been produced more than 200 times by professional and amateur theatre companies and universities in the United States, as well as internationally, including professional productions in Australia, Canada, Romania, Estonia, Luxembourg, Sweden, South Africa, Mexico, and other countries.

Exploring relations between Jewish and African-American businessmen and other residents in the city, including people of color free before the war and newly emancipated freedmen, it premiered at the Folger Shakespeare Library on May 31, 2016.