Booking Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin Biography

Screenwriter and producer Aaron Sorkin was born in 1961 in New York. Sorkin rose to fame in the 1990’s for his unique style of screenwriting, with lengthy monologues and fast moving dialogue, as appeared on his hit television series the West Wing. But long before that, Sorkin grew up in the Scarsdale suburbs, acting in his high school drama club and attending live theater as often as possible. Aaron Sorkin graduated from Syracuse University with his B.A. in Fine Arts in the early 1980’s, and immediately moved to New York City to pursue a career as an actor.

Aaron Sorkin spent a few years touring with various acting groups and working in  a number of odd jobs until he began writing plays. Sorkin’s first endeavor, the play Removing All Doubt, was staged for Syracuse drama students in 1984. Aaron’s follow-up, Hidden in This Picture, made its way to off-Broadway. The success of both eventually garnered Sorkin his first agent, just in time for Sorkin’s third play, A Few Good Men, to go straight from play draft to film rights, culminating in the smash-hit film A Few Good Men, starring Tom Cruise and Demi Moore. 

Since that time, Aaron Sorkin has been one of the era’s most successful and highly respected screenwriters and television producers/writers. Notable films from Sorkin include: The American President (1995), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), The Social Network (2010), and Moneyball (2011.) Television series from Sorkin include his smash-hit The West Wing (1999-2006) and more recently, The Newsroom (2012-2014.) Sorkin’s trademark style is the unique dialogue delivery, but his manner of writing is frequently complemented by Thomas Schlamme, his long-time collaborator who utilizes unique camera moves to follow characters from room to room, space to space, in a single take, creating a unique sense of urgency.

Aaron Sorkin is still at the height of his career, and he continues to write and produce for both television and film. His most recent offering is the film Steve Jobs, based on the book by Walter Isaacson. The film released in 2015.