I'm Aaron.

I'm a writer, performer, and educator, originally from Coral Springs, Florida, and now based in New York City, where I live with my husband Drew and our dog Romy Michele.

My plays and musicals are witty, intellectual social commentary, sophisticated and political but accessible and entertaining, and they often experiment with form. I write about people who are unable to communicate with each other successfully or healthily, and I often cover triangular relationships, cult behavior, abuse, and delusion. I dissect the structures and systems that dictate our lives, like oppression, class, sexuality, and gender, and I explore how we build and exist within them. I am particularly interested in theatricalizing how characters perceive and present reality. I want to challenge audiences’ habitual gazes, by using comedy and levity as tools to distract from the heart of the matter, only to shock with reality near the end. I want my plays to make an audience laugh and then cut them, to cast them as protagonist but also villain. I challenge the lens through which the audience gazes. Scroll or click to Writer to find out more about my work.

I received my M.F.A. in Playwriting from Indiana University, where I studied under Peter Gil-Sheridan, and I received my B.A. in Theatre, with a certificate in Musical Theatre, from Northwestern University, where I studied under Laura Schellhardt. I’m a lyricist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and have been a Core Apprentice at the Playwrights’ Center and a member of the Clubbed Thumb Early-Career Writers’ Group.

As an educator, I teach musical theater writing and co-direct the Musical Theatre Lab Series at Manhattan School of Music, and I teach playwriting at the 92nd Street Y. Previously, I was on faculty at SUNY New Paltz as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, specializing in dramatic writing, for five years.

I’m represented by Farrah Cukor (they/them) in the Theatre Department at United Talent Agency. Scroll or click to Contact to get in touch with me through them.