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 Dr. Aaron Levy, Assistant Professor of English, joined the Kennesaw State University faculty in fall 2004 after five years teaching high school English and Drama. He is a published playwright and is currently writing his first young adult novel. His primary research interest is helping young writers reclaim their voices as writers and story tellers.
Aaron Levy's first young adult work, Pizza With Shrimp On Top, published by Dramatic Publishing in November of 2006, is a play that's been produced over four dozen times around the country and recently had its first international production. Among other awards and honors, Pizza was nominated for the 2007 Distinguished National Play Award for the Middle and Secondary School Audiences by The American Alliance for Theatre in Education (AATE). Levy's One Man's Dance (now titled A Little Mental Illness) has garnered the Dorothy Silvers Playwriting award, Ari-Zoni Best Original Play in Arizona Award, an American College Theatre Festival selection, and a scene and monologue published selection in Smith and Kraus' The Best Stage Scenes of 1994 and The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1994 respectively. Currently, it is a requested submission for publication by Dramatic Publishing. His ten-minute plays, I Don't Want to Live on the Moon and Bolt-Cutter Man were selected and produced in the Ten-Minute Play Showcases at Actors Theatre of Phoenix.
Levy received a B.A. in English, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and a teaching certification. He earned his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction in 2004 and now trains current and future English teachers, along with serving as the playwright-in-residence at Kennesaw State University. He recently finished his first young adult novel, Blood Don't Lie, which has since found literary representation and is in the process of being packaged for seeking publication. Levy has always had an extreme interest in writing for pre-teens and teens and plans to write many more YA books and plays, including writing an adaptation of Blood Don't Lie for stage. Besides his own writing endeavors, Levy loves doing readings and conducting writing workshops for teachers and students at area schools, training teachers in pedagogy and methodology, creating classrooms to develop student-written producible and publishable material, and most recently, promoting young adult dramas, Pizza and many others, in the English classroom.
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Office: English building 238B
Phone: 770-423-6132
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