For the past 30 years Aaron has been working professionally as an actor, director, choreographer, writer, and for the past 17 years the Artistic Director at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago IL. During his time at Marriott, he wrote multiple award-winning musicals including the book for October Sky the musical which premiered October ’21 in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, the book for the Jeff Award-winning HERO the musical, the stage adaptation of For The Boys, for 20th Century Fox, and was tasked by Andrew Llyod Webber to develop a new musical review of his work titled Now And Forever. Some of his directing credits include Spring Awakening (Chicago and International), Darling Grenadine, She Loves Me, Oklahoma! Spelling Bee…(International), the 30th anniversary concert of HAIR! in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Aaron earned his Master of Arts-Business: Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership degree from The University of Wisconsin-Madison Bolz Center for Arts Administration. He served as a Board member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre based in NYC for the past six years and continues committee work for the organization. In 2018 he was asked by the US State Department to develop an arts educational outreach program in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That experience led to the creation of Broadway Across Borders, a not-for-profit arts organization that builds international and cross-cultural collaborations through musical theatre performance that create a shared understanding of humanity by cultivating and connecting emerging artists across borders and empowering their artistic and social entrepreneurship.