My Story
Aaron studied at the Yale School of Drama, where he received his Master of Fine Arts in Acting. At Yale, Aaron studied under esteemed artists such as Ron Van Lieu, Robert Woodruff (former Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theatre), Evan Yionoulus (OBIE Award winning director), Peter Francis James (OBIE, Drama Desk & Lucille Lortel Award winning actor) and was privileged to attend master classes with actor Mandy Patinkin and world-renowned voice teacher Cicely Berry. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre/Acting from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Aaron has shared the stage with some of the American Theatre greats, acting alongside Emmy Award winning actor Charles S. Dutton and Tony Award nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson in The Death of A Salesman, and Jeffery Carlson in Richard II at the Tony Award winning Yale Repertory Theatre. Aaron’s also acted with theatre legends, such as Alvin Epstein (founding member of Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, and the Guthrie Theatre) in Elm Shakespeare’s Macbeth and was directed by multi-OBIE Award winning actress, Joan McIntosh in Homebody/Kabul at Yale Drama.
His other theatre credits include A Woman of No Importance (Yale Rep), Orsino in Twelfth Night and Lucio in Measure for Measure (Elm Shakespeare), Publius in Titus Andronicus, Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Hortensio in Taming of the Shrew (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Donald in City of Conversation (Kavinoky Theatre), Captain Mike in Wonder of the World (Buffalo Laboratory Theatre/Shea's 710 Main) Lady Day: At Emerson’s Bar & Grill with Christina Acosta Robinson, Agamemnon in Electra: A Mask Ritual, Dancing In The Dark and Hotbox, both with Aja Naomi King, (Yale Cabaret). After a critically acclaimed debut at the Elm Shakespeare Company in 2010, Aaron won a Connecticut Critics Circle Award for his comic performance as Autolycus in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. In 2018, Aaron was nominated for an Artie Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his performance as Associate Pastor in Lucas Heaths' "The Christians."
On the big screen, Aaron has shared the screen with Jeremy Renner in Academy Award winning director David O. Russell’s Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe winning film American Hustle. He was also seen in summer box office hit, The First Purge, released internationally on July 4, 2018. Aaron has appeared in over a dozen local and national commercials.
As a voiceover artist, Aaron has been recognized for having a distinct baritone voice. The New Haven Advocate has described him as having “a sultry voice to boot.” Aaron’s voice can be enjoyed in the audiobook for the anthology Santi: Lives of Modern Saints (Black Arrow Press), is featured in the indie film The Miracle, and can be heard as a part of the Yale Centre for British Art’s Moment-To-Moment, an instillation of Shakespeare recitations—accompanying various paintings inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Aaron can be heard across the country as the voice of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre's 2016-17 national tour commercials "Now more than ever!"