Jason Aguirre

Jason Aguirre is a queer, Mexican-American director, bookwriter, and choreographer based in New York, creating visceral, immediate theater that queers form and challenges passive spectatorship. He has developed and presented work at Ars Nova, HERE Arts, Vineyard Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Roundabout Theatre Company, Musical Theatre Factory, Judson Arts, The Tank, Pete’s Candy Store, and the Maker’s Ensemble. He is a Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) Fellow, mentored by Susan Stroman, an alumnus of the Directors Group at Roundabout Theatre Company, a Future Faculty Fellow and graduate of the George and Joy Abbott MFA in Musical Theatre Collaboration at Temple University, and the recipient of the 2024 Boris Sagal Fellowship at Williamstown Theatre Festival.

As an associate and assistant director, Jason has worked alongside Anne Kauffman, Rachel Chavkin, Walter Bobbie, and Darko Tresnjak. He is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of UNTITLED Musical Project, a not-for-profit dedicated to creating space for marginalized musical theatre writers of BIPOC/Global Majority, LGBTQIA+/Queer, and intersecting identities.

Recent directing credits include THIRD SEX: 1930s TRANSVESTITE LIEDER at Ars Nova’s ANT Fest and THE SINS OF SOR JUANA at Fordham University.