My name is Aidan!

 

I am a theatre and film actor available for local hire in NYC and LA.

 

I recently received my B.F.A. in Drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where I studied for 3 years at the wonderful Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and for a year in the Stonestreet Studios Screen Acting Residency. I also spent a semester studying Shakespeare in Performance at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, UK.

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I am a character actor living in a 22-year-old everyman's body -- I will gladly be your warm, whimsical leading man, and I can also play your cerebrally obsessive student, to your eccentrically intense weirdo, all the way to your horror film ghoul. I have a deep connection to the absurd, and an affinity for language, physicality, detail, and the larger than life.

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For theatre work, I am classically trained and you will often find me doing Shakespeare and other heightened-language texts any chance I get. However, I also have a great love of the quietest and most delicate of contemporary plays (Annie Baker will never not make me tear up), and I regularly collaborate with emerging playwrights on bringing their new works to life.

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I am committed to theatre/film/TV/acting's ability to free audience members into the wells of empathy and wonder that we all possess. I will bring your wondrous worlds and characters to life with a bright imagination, a sense of humor, and a joyful attention to detail!

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Click the button below, or visit the contact page to get in touch!

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Personal Bio

As a wee lad growing up in rural Vermont, I spent pretty much every ounce of my free time playing and using my imagination. My sister/friends and I would pretend to be detectives, characters from books, and I would often take on a custom Star Wars character at recess, known to many as "Aidan Fett." I was also always enthralled by any performer I saw, whether it was watching Lucille Ball or Dick Van Dyke, seeing the local magician perform, attending Dan Zanes concerts (or literally anyone with a guitar), and listening to oral storytellers. The sheer wonder they created in me with their performances, and the visible joy they brought themselves while performing would cause me to smile uncontrollably. I would constantly pretend to be them at home.

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I was very fortunate to have a perceptive 4th grade teacher who saw how much performing clicked in me, and she cast me as Nick Bottom the Weaver in her abridged children's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I have never had an easier time feeling as though I was doing what I needed to be doing than when I experienced acting for the first time in that play.

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When not acting, I love playing fingerstyle/acoustic guitar, pretending I'm in Ireland, wearing a flannel while hiking (the flannel is a requirement), watching anything by Mike Flanagan/Wes Anderson, watching the Star Wars prequels, voraciously consuming videos of barbershop quartets, attempting to learn to juggle, and finding cozy coffee shops to melt away in for hours. I am also entering a high fantasy novel obsession, so recommendations are always welcome!

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