Experience
Art House (Sitcom Pilot)
Boston University School of Theatre / Film & TV
Director: Eli Cantor
Writing Supervisor: Adam Lapidus
Role: Lil Bub
In this historic collaboration between BU's School of Theatre and the College of Communication's Film & TV department, I was able to stretch my comedic and broad muscles in a fully produced, professionally run sitcom. In this project I inhabited the grey area between theater and film, honing my ability to navigate mediums.
Photographer: Michael D. Spencer
Writers: (Ave Akinsete, Ian Aquino, Madeleine Bedenko, Sarah Craig, Mira Dhakal, Julia Glicksman, Ella Gullion, Zack Kaplan, Sarah Klein, Ashley Makuwa, Olivia Malek, Nick Mason, Jameson Murray, Edwin O'Neill, Hannah Schreiber, Charlotte Schuster, Amanda Schneider, Joe Sigman, Samir Singh, Bridget Wixted)
"Lil Bub, played by audience favorite Aidan Close (CFA '23), is the energetic wannabe rapper who keeps running out of rhymes."
Joel Brown, BU Today
Once
Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre
Director: Shamus
Playwright: Edna Walsh
Music/Lyrics: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Role: Švec
On top of the specific dialect work, this moving musical had me playing multiple instruments (drum kit, guitar, and bodhran), as well as requiring incredibly athletic dancing and physicality. Acting across the entirety of the spectrum between comedy and drama, this role is one that engrained in me the value of the stamina and technique required for this work.
Photographer: Annie Kao
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Timon of Athens
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Director: Gary Lagden
Playwright: William Shakespeare
Role: Flavius
Caroline Robson, an NYU London professor of British Literature, said this of the show: "I had always thought [Timon of Athens] an unlovable and frankly unperformable play within Shakespeare's oeuvre, but quite frankly the energy, verve, and passion that each of you brought to the stage under Gary's superlative direction was simply enthralling."
Photographer: Provided by RADA
Incels and Other Myths (World Premiere)
Boston Playwrights' Theatre
Director: Erica Terpening-Romeo
Playwright: Ally Sass
Role: Avery
After originating the role in a staged reading nearly a year prior, I was lucky enough to bring Avery to life in the world premiere of this brilliant take on exploring identity, masculinity, and growing up in the digital era.
Photographer: Stratton McCrady
"I particularly liked Aidan Close’s effervescent, ranged performance as Avery."
Diane Lu, The New England Theatre Geek
Much Ado About Nothing
Prague Shakespeare Company
Director: Jim and Carolyn Johnson
Playwright: William Shakespeare
Role: Claudio
Guy Roberts, the artistic head of PSC, came up to me after the performance and said that I was "the only Claudio [he] didn't want to punch in the face." Maybe the best compliment I've ever gotten. I tried to play the role like an open vein and the audience seemed to resonate with that choice.
Photographer: Stanislav Callas
King Henry VI Part III
Prague Shakespeare Company
Director: Brandon Fox
Playwright: William Shakespeare
Role: King Henry VI
Three casts did all three parts of Henry VI in one night, with ours finishing it out with this high intensity production of Part III on the Bez Zábradlí stage in Prague.
Photographer: Stanislav Callas
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