MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

Jason Aguirre (he/him/el) is a New York-based Mexican-American Director, Bookwriter, and  Choreographer specializing in new musical development and immersive works. He is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop, Theatre Now’s National Musical Writers Group, a candidate for the George and Joy Abbott MFA in Musical Theatre Collaboration at Temple University, and a recipient of Temple University’s Future Faculty Fellowship. Jason has also studied with The Upright Citizens Brigade, The Groundlings, and the Broadway Dance Center Professional Semester. Musicals in development include Sick Moves! (or The Dancing Plague of 1518) – a pop/rock musical comedy reimagining of the mysterious dancing plague, Turing and the Poison Apple – An electro-pop fairytale chronicling the heroic life and villainous death of mathematics genius Alan Turing, Disco Demolition – Inspired by the 1979 Disco Demolition event at Comiskey Park which marked, for many, the end of the Disco Era, and Branded^TM! – a Sci-Fi musical comedy about identity politics in the 21st Century.