Aaron Woolfolk (Director/Writer)

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Woolfolk was born and raised in Oakland, California. He received degrees in both Ethnic Studies and Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley. After working in rural Japan as a junior high school English teacher, Aaron returned to the United States to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker. He attended the graduate film program at Columbia University, where he received an M.F.A. in film with an emphasis on Directing. For his first film Rage! Woolfolk won a Directors Guild of America award. His short films Eki (The Station) and Kuroi Hitsuji (Black Sheep) won several awards, screened in many international festivals, and were broadcast on cable television. Aaron was the recipient of an ABC Talent Development Grant, and was later a Walt Disney Studios/ABC Entertainment Writing Fellow. His first play, Bronzeville (co-written with Tim Toyama), premiered in Los Angeles in the spring of 2009.