Aaron Wertheimer is a Chicago-based writer, director, and producer. He wrote and directed the comedy features Wedgerino (2015), Skippers (2018), and Not If I See You First (currently in post-production), and produced the drama feature Relative (2022). Prior to his time in Chicago, he spent over a decade in Brooklyn. He was raised in Calgary, Canada, but has not gone skiing in years.
From 2006 to 2007, Wertheimer was editor-in-chief of the short-lived, much-loved, Brooklyn-based extreme local newsletter, the Greenpoint Williamsburg Star Ledger (which later became the Greenpoint Williamsburg Social Examiner).