Aaron Cammack is the first ever ‘Resident Artist’ for the Arizona Theatre Company .
He will be in three main stage productions for ATC this upcoming season, along with hosting community outreach efforts including an upcoming workshop for about 20 other local actors.
It’s something that wouldn’t have been possible just a few years ago.
“I got to Tucson in 2017,” he said in a sit-down with KGUN. “And I came here in the throes of a battle with substance abuse.”
Alcohol and hard drugs led Cammack down a dark path. He says was using “intravenous drugs” daily. Eventually, Cammack says, he lost everything and ended up in the Pima County Jail.
“I remember feeling really sorry for myself, as you do when you’re locked up, walking around in circles doing ‘Hamlet’ monologues,” he recalled. “I was sure that I would never get back [to acting].”
Cammack got sober in 2019 and got back onstage last year.
On a whim, he auditioned and landed a role in an ATC production of “The Glass Menagerie.” He went on to star in the ATC holiday show “Scrooge.” The second act of his career started to take off.