Aaron Engel is a writer whose irreverent, dark humor is wielded as a cudgel for the systems, a scalpel for the people inside them.
He sees the world through the lens of his biracial background, interfaith childhood and experience in the gay community. That, paired with his twenty-plus years in retail banking and luxury sales, informs his satirical look at the systems we’re all fed to and locked into.
His latest script, PARDON OUR MESS, is a half-hour dark comedy. It follows a gay construction foreman with dissociative identity disorder whose homophobic alter announces he wants a girlfriend — just as his therapist drops him.
Projects
Cap and Soci
Capitalism and Socialism are in love, in business, and in bed together — and every act of altruism costs the workforce identities and limbs.
TV Pilot
Pardon Our Mess
A gay construction foreman with dissociative identity disorder loses the one therapist who could handle him — right as the homophobic alter he shares a body with decides he wants a girlfriend.
Television (Half-hour)
By the Bootstraps
A perpetually overlooked retail employee climbs a corporate ladder whose top he’ll never reach — at a boot company whose executives divine corporate strategy through its cryogenically frozen founder.
TV Pilot
Pardon Our Mess
A gay construction foreman with dissociative identity disorder loses the one therapist who could handle him — right as the homophobic alter he shares a body with decides he wants a girlfriend.
TV Pilot