Aaron Downs

Originally from South Jersey, Aaron is actor/singer-songwriter that focuses on lyric driven music written to connect people. He trained in Musical Theatre at AMDA NY in pursuit of an acting career. After Covid, he moved out to Long Island where he transitioned to social media. With hundreds of millions of views on his personal account as well as working with many clients, Aaron uses his expertise and experience on the internet to influence the writing of The Cave: A Musical About Truth. The Cave takes place in a reimagining of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, where instead of people seeing shadows on the wall, they are scrollers attached to their phones connected on social media. This musical brings this several millennia old story into the 21st century taking the themes further than Plato ever did. The show follows the Programmer (Plato) and their creation, the Algorithm (Socrates) as they conduct an experiment in CoolCave to see how enlightened the scrollers are. Aaron has recorded and produced his own album and several singles as well as a multitude of song parodies for social media. Both of his songs, "Love Will Find a Way" and Chasing Nowhere were semi-finalists in the Music City Songstar Song Writing Competition.