Buffy Aakaash started acting at an early age. He studied theater at Bates College in Maine, and focused on creating mult-media productions involving original music, masks, and choreography. In Seattle he was involved with New City Theater's Playwrights Festival (one of "Best of Fest" for Myths of the Moon) and their Director's Festival (one of "Best of Fest" for Cactus), both original plays and self-directed. He received his MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University in 1993.
In June of 2014, his one minute piece, Spiraling, was produced as part of "Gi60: The International One-minute Play Festival". Spiraling will be published in an anthology (One-Minute Plays: A practical guide to tiny theatre) by Routledge in 2017.
His short play, The Last Night at Manuela's, was selected from over 700 plays and produced at FUSION Theatre in Albuquerque for their 2012 festival, "The Seven". Two of his monologs -- The New Blood and The Ghost of the Greyhounds -- were performed in Dublin, Ireland as part of "Connecting Creativity 2013".
A poet as well as a playwright, his poems have been seen in numerous journals, including Georgetown Review, Tributaries: a journal of nature writing, and Oberon.
In June of 2014, his one minute piece, Spiraling, was produced as part of "Gi60: The International One-minute Play Festival". Spiraling will be published in an anthology (One-Minute Plays: A practical guide to tiny theatre) by Routledge in 2017.
His short play, The Last Night at Manuela's, was selected from over 700 plays and produced at FUSION Theatre in Albuquerque for their 2012 festival, "The Seven". Two of his monologs -- The New Blood and The Ghost of the Greyhounds -- were performed in Dublin, Ireland as part of "Connecting Creativity 2013".
A poet as well as a playwright, his poems have been seen in numerous journals, including Georgetown Review, Tributaries: a journal of nature writing, and Oberon.
"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall,
then in the following one it should be fired.
Otherwise don't put it there."
--Anton Chekhov
then in the following one it should be fired.
Otherwise don't put it there."
--Anton Chekhov