Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin is an Academy-Award and Emmy winning screenwriter, director, and renowned playwright who made his Broadway debut with A Few Good Men, which earned him the John Gassner Award for Outstanding New American Playwright.  His subsequent film adaptation was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay and Best Picture. Sorkin won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network (2010) and received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay Moneyball (2011). Additional screenplays include Steve Jobs (2015), THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995), and Charlie Wilson’s War (2007). In 2017, Sorkin made his directorial debut with Molly’s Game, which he also wrote, earning him an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay. Sorkin wrote and directed The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), which was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.  Sorkin also wrote and directed Being the Ricardos, (2021) which was nominated for four Academy Awards.  Acclaimed across mediums, Sorkin created, wrote and produced The West Wing, which won 26 Primetime Emmy Awards, The Newsroom, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Sports Night and the stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, the highest grossing American play in Broadway history.  In 2023, Sorkin’s adaptation of the classic Lerner & Loewe musical Camelot played at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater.