I'm Aaron.

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

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 David Catlin, Amanda Dehnert, Laura Schellhardt, and Jessica Thebus, among other inspiring artists. As a writer, 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 actor, I’m a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Head to Writer and Performer to find out more about my creative work.

As an educator, I teach musical theater writing and direct the Musical Theatre Lab Series at Manhattan School of Music. Additionally, I teach playwriting at the Playwrights’ Center, at the 92nd Street Y, and independently. Head to Educator to find out more about my teaching and upcoming classes.

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

Clubbed Thumb workshop starting soon

9/24/26

I’ll be part of this season’s cohort of artists for Clubbed Thumb’s New Play Directing Fellowship. Director Marissa Joyce Stamps and I will soon begin developing my new play 12N with a company of emerging actors. Then, in January, we’ll present the play with professional actors during Clubbed Thumb’s Winterworks festival, along with work by playwrights Danial Holzman and Nikhil Mahapatra, directed by Cricket Brown and Jillian Jetton respectively. Directors Anne Kauffman and Daniel Aukin will mentor all three directing fellows.

Musical Theatre Writing class at the Playwrights’ Center

9/16/26

I’m back at the Playwrights’ Center, where I’m an Affiliated Writer, teaching two classes this fall, one on Zoom and one in person at the Playwrights’ Center itself in Minneapolis:

1. A six-week course on Crafting a Musical Theater Treatment: Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. Eastern (9/16-10-21), Zoom. This course will focus on the act of writing outlines and treatments as a tool for generating new musicals. We'll also discuss treatments and outlines in the rights acquisition and job application processes. This class will lean more heavily on my lectures and on readings, though it will still have some writing assignments and some workshopping.

2. A one-day, three-hour master class on Musical Theater Songwriting: Saturday, October 31 from 10 a.m.– 1p.m., in person at the Playwrights' Center. My collaborator Alex Bechtel and I will be leading this forum for songwriters to workshop their musical theater songs, and students can attend as either a presenter or an observer. 

I'm a writer.

I aim to give my audience a great time—with strings attached. I aim to create witty, intellectual entertainment, social commentary that is sophisticated and political but accessible and fun, that playfully experiments with expected dramatic forms. I use comedy and levity as tools to distract from the heart of the matter, only to shock my audience with reality near the end, in an effort to challenge their habitual gazes. I want my plays to make an audience laugh and then cut them, to cast them as protagonist but also villain. I do this to 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.

Visit the New Play Exchange for more detailed information about my body of work, including script samples.

I'm a performer.

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“Stupid Things I Won’t Do” by William Finn at the Duplex

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I’m an educator.

It is my priority to create spaces where students feel safe, brave, and themselves, especially if there might not be many students like them. With my knowledge and appreciation of many forms, styles, genres, and texts, I can work within a writer’s own dramaturgy. I urge students to explore whatever they want in their own work, which requires a classroom culture of care and also fun. I am committed to training students in the development of new work through a careful, healthy replication of the professional experience in the classroom. I focus much of my teaching time on how one should (or should not!) talk during workshop, encouraging tact, self-reflection, and community care. As a working theater artist—especially in the musical theater—I prioritize a contemplative, frank investigation of how exactly one works alongside other artists.

I teach musical theater writing and direct the Musical Theatre Lab Series at Manhattan School of Music. Additionally, I teach playwriting at the Playwrights’ Center, at the 92nd Street Y, and independently. Previously, I spent five years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of dramatic writing in the Creative Writing program at SUNY New Paltz.

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I'm a talker.