Featured Roles
	Tadpole (2002)		Rick (2004)		Winter Solstice (2005)
Runaway(n.d.)		Standing Still (2006)		The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
	Live Free or Die (2007)		Traveler (2007)		Flakes (2007)
Holy Money(n.d.)		The Cake Eaters (2009)			(2009)

events

a chronological list

• 9/21/2016   We've Forgotten More Than We Ever Knew awarded Best Domestic Narrative Feature after its September 17 showing at the Rome International Film Festival in Rome Georgia.  IMDB
   
• 6/29/2016   12 Monkeys is renewed for a third season.
  Ten episodes to air in 2017.  IGN article
   
• 1/19/2016   DVD and Blu-ray of 12 Monkeys season 1 are now available.
  They can be purchased from Amazon. The DVD can be rented from Netflix.
   
• 1/14/2016   Season 2 of 12 Monkeys will debut Monday, April 18, at 9 p.m. e.s.t. TV Line announcement
  This trailer/preview was shown at last October's New York Comic-Con.
   
• 3/23/2015   Aaron Stanford will co-star with Louisa Krause in We've Forgotten More Than We Ever Knew. Early 2016 release is projected.
  The film, written and directed by Thomas Woodrow, is currently in production in the Catskills.  IMDB
   
• Ides of March/2015   12 Monkeys renewed for a second season, with 13 episodes to show in 2016.  Entertainment Weekly article
   
• 1/7/2015   The pilot episode of Syfy's 12 Monkeys series to air on Friday, January 16, 2015 at 9 p.m., eastern time.
  Rolling Stone preview
   
• 5/20/2014   Nikita season 4 DVD and Blu-ray released May 20, 2014,
  They can be ordered from Amazon, rented from Netflix, and streamed online from both.
   
• 4/4/2014   12 Monkeys ordered to series by the Syfy channel.
  Aaron Stanford will play James Cole, an agent from the future tasked with saving the future for Homo sapiens. Thirteen episodes are planned, with the initial episode to air mid-January 2015. Shooting will begin in Toronto early August 2014.  Deadline article
   
• 11/4/2013   Aaron Stanford is cast as James Cole, the male lead in the Syfy channel's 12 Monkeys pilot, based on the 1995 Terry Gilliam movie of the same name.
  Shooting of the post-apocalyptic tale is scheduled for early December in, yes, Detroit.   Futon Critic
   
• 10/26/2013   Aaron Stanford reads the part of Tobias "Four" Eaton in the audiobook edition of Veronica Roth's Allegiant, the concluding novel of her best-selling Divergent trilogy.
  Earlier this year, Aaron's voice was chosen by fans of the novels in a contest sponsored by the audio division of the series' publisher, HarperCollins. A sample of his narration accompanies Amazon's listing of the audio CD.
   
• 10/23/2013   Nikita season 3 DVD and Blu-ray released October 22, 2013.
  They can be ordered from Amazon, who, along with Netflix, also offers streaming of season 3 episodes.
   
• 10/5/2013   The final six episodes of Nikita will air beginning Friday November 22 and concluding on Friday December 27.
  IGN  |  Nikita Twitter
   
• 10/1/2013   Today is the final day of filming of the final episode of Nikita.
  Here are twitterpics from Aaron Stanford (Birkhoff) and Albert Kim (series co-producer and writer) to mark the occasion.
   
• 10/2/2012   Second season Nikita DVD and Blu-ray issued October 2, 2012.
  They are available from Amazon
   
• 5/11/2012   The CW renews Nikita for a third session
  with an order for 22 episodes. More information at The Futon Critic.
   
• 8/30/2011   DVD and Blu-ray for first season of Nikita are available through Amazon.
   
• 5/17/2011   The CW renews Nikita for a second season. More Info
   
• 10/24/2010   Nikita is extended to the full 2010-2011 season.
  The CW has ordered nine new episodes. More Info
   
• Nikita debuts Thursday September 9, 2010, on The CW at 9:00pm EST.
   
• Nikita, in which Aaron Stanford plays a computer and communication specialist named Seymour Birkhoff, has been ordered to series by The CW.
  Thirteen episodes are planned for the 2010-2011 season. Shooting for the new series began in Toronto in mid-July. You can follow the series' development at The Futon Critic.
   
• How I Got Lost DVD released May 11, 2010.
  It can be ordered from the film's official site or from Amazon.
   
• Aaron Stanford plays the resident techie in the pilot for Nikita, a potential TV series for The CW.
  Filming completed in Toronto March 2010.
   
• Runaway DVD released December 8, 2009.
  You can order it on Amazon. The Runaway Facebook page gives some of the flavor of this dark, disturbing, compelling story.
   
• Holy Money is scheduled for European theatrical release September 16, 2009
  through Kinepolis, a Belgium-based distributor and operator of cinema complexes in Belgium, France, Spain, and Switzerland.
   
• Fear Itself DVDs (4-disc set) containing all 13 episodes including Echoes, the episode starring Aaron Stanford, released September 15, 2009.
  It's available for purchase from Amazon
   
• Aaron Stanford appeared in a guest role in the fourth episode of the third season of AMC's Mad Men,
  where he played a potential client of the show's 1960s advertising firm, Sterling Cooper. The September 6, 2009 episode, titled The Arrangements is available for purchase on Amazon Instant Video.
   
• Playing a poker genius who seems to have lost his gaming skills, Aaron Stanford was the lead guest actor
  in the July 19, 2009 episode of the USA Network/NBC series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This eighth season episode, titled All In, is available for purchase on Amazon Instant Video.
   
• How I Got Lost shows at a number of U.S. film festivals throughout 2009
  (and one Canadian venue in 2010). For a very complete log of this film's appearances and other activities, see the film's Facebook page.
   
• The Cake Eaters DVD released March 24, 2009.
  Available from Amazon.
   
• The Cake Eaters U.S. cinema distribution begins March 13, 2009.
  It is the first project distributed by 7-57 Releasing, a new company created by the film's producers, The 7th Floor and 57th and Irving Productions.
   
• Flakes DVD released July 8, 2008.
  It is available from Amazon.
   
• Aaron Stanford plays Andrew Peterson in How I Got Lost.
  Written and directed by Joe Leonard, this is a full length version of his earlier (2005) short film of the same name. Filming completed in May 2008.   official site.
   
• Traveler pilot is selected by The Futon Critic as number 12 of the 50 best TV episodes of 2007.   Futon's Top 50 for 2007
   
• Flakes opens December 19, 2007 at the IFC Center in New York City.
  U.S. release is through IFC Films, with simultaneous on-demand TV release.
   
• Aaron Stanford plays the lead guest role in Hollywood Homicide, the October 5, 2007 episode of the CBS TV drama Numb3rs. The season 4 episode can be watched on Amazon Instant Video.
   
• Live Free or Die DVD released July 24, 2007.
  Available for purchase from Amazon.
   
• Standing Still DVD released June 26, 2007.
  Available from Amazon.
   
• The Cake Eaters has a busy fall 2007 film festival schedule.
  It screened in September at the San Diego Film Festival, in October at the Woodstock Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival, and in November at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
   
• Flakes screens at the Nantucket Film Festival
  on June 14 and 15, 2007.
   
• Traveler has liftoff.
  Following a preview showing of the pilot episode on May 10, Seven further episodes of the series are scheduled by ABC, beginning on May 30, 2007, in the Wednesday, 10 - 11pm (EST) time slot. A schedule, with episode titles, can be found on Wikipedia.
   
• The Cake Eaters debuts
  at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival on April 29 as a film in the Encounters category.
   
• Live Free or Die limited US theatrical release
  begins March 30, 2007.
   
• Flakes premieres on March 10, 2007
  at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin Texas.
   
• For their gory battle in The Hills Have Eyes' atomic village, Aaron Stanford and Michael Bailey Smith won the "Bloodiest Beatdown" category of the Fuse/Fangoria annual Chainsaw Awards,
  held at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, October 15, 2006. Although Aaron was not able to attend the awards presentation, he received a statue and was pretty happy about that.
   
• X-Men: The Last Stand DVD released October 3, 2006.
  Available from Amazon
   
• ABC adds Traveler to their drama lineup
  for midseason 2007.
   
• Live Free or Die screens at Newport, Seattle, and Atlanta film festivals in June 2006.
   
• The Hills Have Eyes DVD, in rated and unrated versions, released June 20, 2006.
  Available from Amazon
   
• X-Men: The Last Stand premieres in May 2006.
  at Cannes Film Festival
   
• Standing Still opens April 21, 2006
  on 15 screens in 9 cities.
   
• Runaway set for busy spring festival season,
  including the Vail Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, Eliat Film Festival (Israel) and Festival de Cinema des 3 Ameriques (Quebec).
   
• Live Free or Die is top jury winner
  in the narrative feature competition at the March 2006 South-By-Southwest Film Festival.
   
• Live Free or Die to show as the closing film
  on April 11, 2006 at the 11th Gen Art Film Festival in New York City.
   
• The Hills Have Eyes premieres March 9, 2006
  at Los Angeles' ArcLight Cinerama Dome.
   
• Live Free or Die to debut
  in the narrative feature competition at the South-By-Southwest Film Festival March 10-19, 2006.
   
• Runaway to screen at 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.
  Showings on September 15 and 17.
   
• Winter Solstice DVD released September 13, 2005.
  It is available through Amazon.
   
• Runaway to premier
  at 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, with showings on April 26, 28, 30.
   
• Standing Still to premier
  as closing film at 10th Gen Art Film Festival, NYC April 12, 2005.
   
• Winter Solstice to begin phased theatre release
  on April 8, 2005 with showings on two screens in New York City and two in Los Angeles.
   
• Rick DVD released November 9, 2004.
  It is available through Amazon.
   
• Aaron Stanford picked for 2004 "Rising Stars: Screen Acting Discoveries,"
  a program associated with the Hamptons International Film Festival which promotes the creative expression of emerging actors in independent film.
   
• Winter Solstice to screen October 22 and 23, 2004
  at Hamptons International Film Festival.
   
• Aaron Stanford plays the role of Michael Addler in Runaway.
  Filbert Steps Productions. Filming completed late September 2004.
   
• Vitagraph Films to release Rick to U.S. theatres
  beginning September 2004. Press Release
   
• Rick screens at 2004 Moscow International Film Festival
  June 18-27.
   
• Winter Solstice to be distributed by Paramount Classics;
  probable 2005 release.
   
• Winter Solstice premiers
  at 2004 Tribeca Film Festival, with screenings May 4, 5, and 8.
   
• Rick opens the Independent Film Festival of Boston,
  April 29, 2004.
   
• First European screening of Rick,
  January 2004 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam,
   
• X2: X-Men United DVD released November 25, 2003
  Available from Amazon.
   
• Premier screening of Rick
  September 6, 2003 as a Discovery Film at Toronto International Film Festival.
   
• For folks in the Boston/New England area,
  Aaron Stanford is the cover of the September 2003 issue of Boston magazine. Inside (p. 102), he is featured as one in the "hot list" of "newer talent that's spinning and rising around our cultural hub."
   
• X2: X-Men United premiers
  April 28, 2003 in Los Angeles.
   
• Details, April 2003, Aaron Stanford featured on opening Contents page
  as one of 10 actors having a strong chance to be "The next Big Thing."
   
• Tadpole Video and DVD released January 21, 2003.
  DVD and Instant Video available from Amazon.
   
• Aaron Stanford is picked by Variety as one of its "10 Actors to Watch."
  "Like Graduate did with [Dustin] Hoffman in 1967, Stanford's Tadpole ... has instantly placed the 25-year-old thesp on Hollywood's radar. So much so, Stanford made the jump from a $150,000 digital video feature to playing the flame-throwing mutant Pyro in the enormous big-studio pic X-Men 2." September 5, 2002, p. A3.
   
• Theatre releases begin for Tadpole.
  Following its U.S. theatre premier on July 15, 2002, Tadpole, in which Aaron Stanford plays the lead role of Oscar, is scheduled for runs in 55 cities across the US.
   
• In its sixth annual IT issue, Entertainment Weekly picks Aaron Stanford as their "IT debut"
  for his starring role in Tadpole. June 28/July 5, 2002 issue, p. 60.
   
• Tadpole wins best dramatic direction award at 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

interviews, appearances, notable reviews, production and distribution notes

on-line and print media, by project

• 2015 Season 1
• 4/10/2015   Published in Entertainment Weekly, this extensive meditation by Darren Franich on time travel conceits and Syfy's 12 Monkeys TV series appears at first to be mostly about a famous Star Trek episode. But be patient. It's relevant.
• 1/15/2015   12 Monkeys gets a very positive review by Neil Genzlinger in the New York Times.
• 2014—2015 Before Season 1
• 1/7/2015   Rolling Stone offers a preview of next week's debut of 12 Monkeys.
• 11/9/2014    Panel discussion with Aaron Stanford, Amanda Schull, and 12 Monkeys co-creator Travis Fickett at the October 20, 2014 Syfy Digital Press Tour.
• 10/16/2014   Interviews from the October 9-12, 2014 New York Comic Con: Interviewers were especially curious as to how Syfy's 12 Monkeys would build on and differ from Terry Gilliam's 1995 film. See IGN executive editor Eric Goldman's interview with head writers and executive co-producers Travis Fickett and Terry Matalas, and, also for IGN, Roth Cornet's talk with showrunner Natalie Chaidez and Emily Hampshire, who plays crazy (maybe) Jennifer Goines. A pilot screening generated longish informative reviews by Kieran Dickson on the Outer Places site, and Katherine Trendacosta on io9. Rudie Obias reviewed the pilot episode for moviepilot.com. Dickson review  |  Trendacosta review  |  Obias review
• 7/16/2014   The Syfy channel's July 14 Television Critics Association press tour revealed more about their upcoming 12 Monkeys time travel series. Here are a ComingSoon.net interview with Aaron Stanford and two articles, from HitFix's Daniel Feinberg and IGN TV's Eric Goldman.  ComingSoon interview | HitFix article | IGN article
• 7/16/2014   Official trailer for the first season of Syfy's 12 Monkeys.
• 5/5/2014   io9's Meredith Woerner reports on her viewing of the 12 Monkeys trailer at Syfy's April 30 Upfront presentation. Her verdict: "This could really work as a show."    Full report.

• Aaron Stanford and Kristen Stewart talk about The Cake Eaters and other matters.   Interview
• Variety reviews The Cake Eaters in a June 1, 2007 posting.
• Jayce Bartok, who wrote The Cake Eaters and who stars in the film, talks about writing the script and making the movie in a March 13, 2009 interview with Facets Features.
• Roger Ebert gives The Cake Eaters a positive review, with an insightful recap of the story.  Roger Ebert March 2009 Review

• 9/20/2012   This insightful article by Lauren Taylor in the horror genre website Bloody Disgusting focuses on Aaron Stanford's history of creating believable, often appealing, characters in a wide variety of acting situations.
• The cast and director of this time-bending episode of Fear Itself offer a glimpse into their approach to horror. Recipe for Horror
• Director Rupert Wainwright reveals that the secret inspiration for 'Echoes' lies in murder, mayhem and a jazz-age poem banned for indecency for 50 years. Secret Inspiration
• Echoes, is an episode of the NBC TV horror anthology series Fear Itself. Filming was completed July 2008, but the episode, along with four others, was not broadcast when the series was interrupted by coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games and national political conventions. The complete series, including Echoes, was issued on DVD in September 2009. It is available from Amazon

• Variety reviews Flakes in a March 21, 2007 posting.

• Rebecca Murray of About.com Entertainment conducts an extended interview with Aaron Stanford on horror movies, filming in Morocco, and remakes. The page also gives links to interviews with Emilie de Ravin, Alexandre Aja, and Wes Craven.
• Thanks to stanfordwank for finding this very interesting iF Magazine online interview with Hills have Eyes director Alexandre Aja: Why is he drawn to making horror films? Why did he choose Aaron Stanford for the role of Doug Bukowski? What new films might be in his future and what does that have to do with "the last big superhero movie?"
• Ain't It Cool News is a controversial website run by Harry Knowles dedicated to rumors and reviews of upcoming and currently playing films. As of mid-March 2006 it contains a review of The Hills Have Eyes followed by extensive comments, observations, rants on Hills and on horror flicks in general.   Hills review
• An advance review from Great Britain of The Hills Have Eyes.   British Review
• Acting is hard work, especially when you're filming action sequences 12 hours a day in 100 fahrenheit degrees of desert heat. Covered in red Karo. Cast members of The Hills Have Eyes talk about the characters they play and their experiences on location in Morocco in the March 2006 print issue of Fangoria, pp. 28-31.
• A five-page article on The Hills Have Eyes' origins, concepts guiding the remake, and logistical challenges of production in Morocco is featured in the February 2006 print issue the horror-film magazine Fangoria, issue 250, pp. 42-46.

• Based on the novel Holy Smoke, by Tonino Benacquista. Produced by a Belgian company, Moviestream, and filmed in 2007 in Italy, Belgium and England. The film was never released or distributed in the U.S. market.

• Lars Trodson's May 2010 review of How I Got Lost focuses on the film's strong sense of place and memorable characterizations. Roundtable Pictures review
• In this October 21, 2009 interview, director Joe Leonard talks about the development of How I Got Lost and the work of Aaron Stanford and Jacob Fishel on the film.  Stereosubversion.com interview

• Tobias Peterson saw Live Free or Die at the 2006 SXSW festival and his resulting review shows real insight into the core of the story. It's the final review on the page, so you'll need to scroll down.   LFOD Review

• In this June 27, 2011 posting to AMCTV's Mad Men Blog, Aaron Stanford talks about his guest role as aspiring entrepreneur Horace (Ho Ho) Cook, and his non-decision to become an actor.

• 12/16/2013   Hanh Nguyen interviews Aaron Stanford for TV Guide. Topics include his reaction to working with The Breakfast Club's Judd Nelson in this final season of Nikita, Stanford's take on why Nikita fans like his Birkhoff character, and brief remarks on his new 12 Monkeys project.  TV Guide interview
• 11/19/2013   Here is a business perspective on Nikita's fourth season.
• 11/18/2013   In an interview with IGN TV's Eric Goldman, Aaron Stanford talks about Nikita's abbreviated final season, his view of the function of the Birkhoff role in the series as a whole, X-Men, and other matters. The interview is one of a series with Nikita cast members conducted by Goldman in September on the show's Toronto set.   IGN interview
• 8/29/2013   Here and also here, is the complete video of the Nikita cast's Comic-Con 2013 farewell panel discussion.
• 7/23/2013   At this past week's Comic-Con International, Aaron Stanford talked about the development of his Birkhoff character over the past three seasons of Nikita and about what might be in store for the droll techie in the show's upcoming final season. Comic-Con interviews here and here.
• You'll find handy links here to You Tube videos of the Nikita panel discussion at the July 2012 Comic-Con International in San Diego.
• In addition to participating in the Nikita panel discussion at Comic-Con International 2012, Aaron Stanford gave plenty of interviews. These links will take you to a sampling of the interviews: TV For The Rest of Us  |  Seat42f  |  TV Fanatic
• The Huffington Post, Screencrave, and TV Fanatic regularly recap and review Nikita episodes. Here they look at season two's episode 20, Shadow Walker, which features Birkhoff.
• Some enthusiastic shoutouts to Aaron Stanford and the 16th episode of Nikita's 2nd season. TV Guide  |  TV Fanatic  |  CliqueClack TV
• These takes on the second season premier of Nikita talk about the development of Aaron Stanford's Birkhoff. TV Fanatic  |  tv equals  |  Aol TV
• Nikita is on facebook and twitter
• The Futon Critic weighs in with their "First Look" at Nikita. Futon Critic review

• The Runaway Facebook page gives some of the flavor of this dark, disturbing, compelling story.
• This insightful and informative February 2010 review of Runaway by Robert Bell on the Canadian site Exclaim.ca, was occasioned by the release of the DVD.

• Newsweek, May 6, 2002, p.58. Tadpole is chosen as one of the top summer movies. "Swimming in a sea of blockbusters is this teensy comedy, shot in two weeks on digital video, about a precocious teen who falls for the wrong woman: his stepmother."
• Premier, April 2002, pp. 72-74.
• Interview, April 2002, p. 68.
• "If you're a fan of the three Manhattan W's--Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, and Whit Stillman, that is--you're going to love Tadpole. ...the thing you really take home with you is Aaron Stanford's career-making performance. A 25-year-old Rutgers University graduate and current resident of Union City, New Jersey, Stanford gets Oscar, the 15-year-old lovestruck prep-schooler, just right."-- Jeffrey Wells, Reel.com, January 14, 2002.
• "Newcomer Aaron Stanford has impeccable comic timing as the precocious young hero."-- Newsweek on-line, January 19, 2002.
• "Stanford is consistently brilliant in a role that could easily play smug or brittle, but he's got gravitas without weariness, portraying fixation without becoming overbearing."-- Ray Pride, Indiewire.com film reviews, January 17, 2002.  Full Review

• In this May 10, 2007 interview, TV with MeeVee managing editor Marjorie Kase covers an unusually wide range of topics—the making of Traveler, comic books, favorite TV viewing, more.
• You can learn how the story would have developed if the series had not been cancelled by reading this article written by David DeGillio, the show's creator and lead writer.
• Aaron Stanford talks about his new TV series Traveler in an interview posted on tv.com the day before its May 10, 2007 preview showing on ABC.    Traveler Interview

• Roger Ebert was impressed with the integrity and honesty of Winter Solstice.  Roger Ebert April 2005 Review

• The Boston Globe interviewed Aaron Stanford in Hollywood after the April 28, 2003 Los Angeles premier of X2: X-Men United.   Boston Globe Interview

• X-Men: The Last Stand has received a detailed and very positive review posted 21 May 2006 on Ain't It Cool News. The review is followed by lots of spirited comments.