Arts, Provocation, and Jewish History
with Aaron Henne of theatre dybbuk
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Aaron Henne, artistic director of theatre dybbuk, discusses theatrical and artistic approaches to Jewish text, history, and ritual. He investigates the ways in which Jewish points of entry can illuminate challenging topics and speak to issues in our contemporary society.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4 (with guest Gamal Palmer)
Episode 5 (with guest Erith Jaffe-Berg)
Episode 6 (with guest Michael Skloff)
Episode 7 (with guest Fahad Siadat)
Episode 8 (with guest Dan Wolf)
Episode 9 (with guest Miri Koral)
Episode 10 (with guest Rotem Rozental)
Episode 11 (with guest Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik)
Episode 12 (with guest Alicia Jo Rabins)
Episode 13 (with guest Ariel Burger)
Episode 14 (with guest Jake Marmer)
Episode 15 (with guest Jon Adam Ross)
Episode 16 (with guest Miriam Heller Stern)
Episode 17 (with guest Menachem Kaiser)
Episode 18 (with guest Martin Storrow)
Episode 19 (with guest Rachel Leah Cohen)
Episode 20 (with guest Eddy Portnoy)
Episode 21 (with guest Anne Hromadka Greenwald)
Episode 22 (with guest Adina Allen)
Episode 23 (with guests Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman)
Aaron Henne is the Artistic Director of theatre dybbuk, a company whose work focuses on Jewish folklore and history and whose projects include cave...a dance for lilith, exagoge, and lost tribes.
In addition to his work as theatre dybbuk's Artistic Director, Aaron Henne’s plays include King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free! (published by Original Works Publishing) and Sliding Into Hades (LA Weekly Awards for Playwriting and Production of the Year). His exploration of machines and their relationships to humanity, Body Mecanique, was developed and produced by LA Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC). Henne was commissioned by The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to create new pieces about the natural world for that institution’s family audiences.
Henne’s multimedia adaptation of a 12th Century epic poem, collision/theory’s Blood Red Lost Head Dead Falcon: The Nibelungen, was a partner in the LA Opera’s Ring Festival LA. His investigation of Kafka’s novel The Castle, called A Man’s Home, as well as his play Mesmeric Revelation (SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Original Script), a clash of science and mysticism, were both developed and produced by Central Works in Berkeley, CA.
Henne previously served as Co-Literary Manager at the Theatre @ Boston Court, Playwriting Instructor for the Robey Theatre Company, and Educational Program Director for We Tell Stories. He teaches storytelling throughout the country and has designed and facilitated workshops for Lucasfilm, Pixar, and Dreamworks. He was an American Jewish University Dream Lab Fellow and the Diane Luboff Scholar at the Cutter Colloquium at HUC-JIR. He has also served as a professional mentor at Otis College of Art and Design, as faculty for the Wexner Heritage Program, and as a consultant for a wide variety of organizations. He was also a Pilot Wexner Field Fellow.