Aaron's hip-hop musicals Shakespeare: The Remix, No Lie, and others have won awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, NEA, NEFA, Sundance, and were named "high point of the theatrical year" by the San Francisco Chronicle. A former Open Rap Slam champion at the National Poetry Slam Championships, Aaron has led spoken word and theatre for social change workshops nationwide for 25 years, and is the founding director of The Word poetry-in-the-schools program in New Haven.