Aaron Rahsaan Thomas ’95 - Young Alumni Award
We congratulate Aaron Rahsaan Thomas '95 for being selected for the Pembroke Hill Young Alumni Award.
Growing up in Kansas City, Kan., Aaron developed a love for storytelling after completing a fifth grade assignment to create his own original Greek myth from scratch. As time passed, Aaron developed his passion for storytelling visually and attended Morehouse College.
Aaron graduated from the University of Kansas, earning honors in English Literature. After college, Aaron moved to Los Angeles and attended graduate school at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Following his graduation from USC, Aaron was selected for the prestigious CBS Writers Mentoring Program.
He began his professional career as a writer’s assistant on Soul Food: The Series and went on to work on the staff of such TV series as NBC’s Friday Night Lights, for which he received a Peabody Award, as well as CBS procedural dramas, such as Numb3rs and CSI:NY. Aaron has also served as a co-executive producer on TNT’s SouthLAnd, Fox’s Sleepy Hollow and Netflix's The Get Down.
Two of Aaron's screenplays have been produced as feature films: Cover, directed by Bill Duke, and Assassination Games, starring Jean Claude Van Damme. He has also directed an ESPN 30 for 30 film about the USC football team during the Pete Carroll era, entitled, Trojan War.
Aaron is currently co-creator and executive producer of the procedural series reboot of S.W.A.T., which airs on CBS.