Teaching While Black

Aaron Moss is an actor, director, and producer with on-screen credits including "The First Purge" (Universal Pictures) and Golden Globe Best Movie winner "American Hustle" (Columbia Pictures). Aaron produced and directed the sitcom pilot "Mixed Up" and has several features and pilots in development. He is a recipient of the 2011 Connecticut Critics Circle Award and a 2018 ArtVoice Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor. Aaron holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. Aaron has appeared in over a dozen national commercials, voiceover narrations for books and films, and in several Off-Off-Broadway workshop productions, including ...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi and We Are Proud to Present… for The Prelude Festival, DJ & Jess and Sistah’s: A Love Story w/ Aja Naomi King at New Dramatist. In 2009, he appeared opposite Charles S. Dutton & Stephen McKinley Henderson in the Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Death of Salesman. In 2010, after a critically acclaimed performance as Atolycus in The Winter’s Tale at the Elm Shakespeare Company (CT), Aaron won a Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Debut Performance. He’s performed several narrations with the Grammy nominated Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (Peter & The Wolf, Peter Pan, Carnival of the Animals, and T’was The Night Before Christmas). After a critically acclaimed performance as Joshuah in The Christians at the Road Less Traveled Theatre (NY), Aaron was nominated for a 2018 ArtVoice Award for Best Supporting Actor. Aaron could be heard as the voice of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre's 2016-2017 television ads "Now more than ever!" and can be seen in several commercials airing in NY.