Aaron Muñoz
Biography
Aaron Muñoz is an actor, playwright, producer, and teacher. As an actor, he has been seen onstage across the country, working at The Actors Theatre of Louisville, Geva Theater Center, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, The Studio Theatre, Northern Stage, Theatrical Outfit, About Face Theatre, and the Georgia, Lake Tahoe, Alabama, Nashville & First Folio Shakespeare Festivals. Television and film appearances include Stranger Things, The Walking Dead, Cadillac Records, CBGB, The Saurus (SXSW Film Festival), Yinz, All Light Will End, and Tennis Tips with Freddy Love (Nashville Film Festival, also writer/director). He is the co-writer of Lost Laughs: The Slapstick Tragedy of Fatty Arbuckle, which had it’s World Premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and is the co-creator of 2 Households, 2 Assholes: Shakespeare’s R & J, which premiered at the SoHo Playhouse in the New York International Fringe Festival. Muñoz is also the founding Artistic Director of Nashville Story Garden, an incubator for original projects that creates film, theatre, and modern media from the ground up. Producer highlights include Mr. Mysterio Podcast (Best of Nashville), Love Song by John Kolvenbach (Critic’s Choice, Nashville Scene), and Once Upon a Time, a literacy project with Nashville Parks and the Nashville Public Library. As an acting teacher, he has taught previously at Middle Tennessee State University, Lipscomb University, Oglethorpe University, Point Park University, Tennessee State University, Florida Atlantic University, Georgia Highlands College, and Huntington College. A Kansas City native, Muñoz started performing with Lighten Up Improv Company while in high school and subsequently trained with The Second City Conservatory, IO Theatre, and LAByrinth Theatre Company. He holds a BA from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA from Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s professional actor training program. Mentors and instructors include Sheldon Patinkin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Cromer, Martin de Maat, Shirley Jo Finney, Jeff Ginsberg, Sarah Felder, Greta Lambert, Chuck Smith, Anne Libera, David Woolley, Del Close, Ray Chambers, and Colleen Kelly.
Known For & Full Filmography12 Titles
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Mr. Holland
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes • as Tony
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Allen Hawkins
An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in the pulse-pounding pandemonium of the emergency room.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Psycho 1
Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.
Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Manager
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Palace Hotel Manager
A look at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Stache
When a capricious young author with a dark secret returns home for her brother's graduation, she finds herself haunted by the past and tormented by night terrors.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Steve
With the news of his brothers death, Michael's world is turned upside down as he begins a journey of self-assessment, self-reflection, and self-discovery.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Tommy Tomasetti
The lives of three upper class teenagers are turned upside down by an unexpected murder.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Jake
After losing their jobs right before Christmas, six restaurant employees hatch a plan to rob their boss's high-stakes poker game. As the complications and mishaps pile up, one thing becomes clear: It'll take a Christmas miracle to pull this heist off.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Donald Reagan
A man with a robust vocabulary must write a scornful letter to an old friend.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as Star Baby
Palace is a series of vignettes following a Roscoe Arbuckle-esque silent film star, who acts as both performer and audience in an empty palace theater.