Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize WHERE HAVE ALL THE FAIRIES GONE? as a Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Premiere Play Festival. The play rose through a competitive process to become distinguished among 805 submissions. Premiere's panel of theatre professionals commended how engaging the play is, skillfully weaving three characters' stories into the context of larger social unrest. Our congratulations and thanks to Aaron.

Where Have All the Fairies Gone? is a deeply moving and beautifully crafted play. The characters are complex and real, with the kind of nuanced depth that makes you want to spend more time with them. Coleman does an amazing job weaving together personal stories with larger social contexts, showing how these two men’s budding relationship becomes a revolution of its own in a world built to keep them apart.

A beautifully rendered character study of three complex, nuanced, and recognizable humans. Like all great historical fiction, Coleman makes wonderful use of the socio-historical context he is writing within to illuminate truths about our contemporary world. The seeds of Pride and the complications and dynamics surrounding it are explored thoroughly, as are the implications and reverberations of those historical origins on contemporary intersectional queer activism. I'd love to see these characters realized onstage and to spend time with them watching a staged production.