Ahonen is most known for his plays The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side, Happy In The Poorhouse, The Bad And The Better, and The Qualification of Douglas Evans which have had numerous runs in New York and have been translated, adapted, and performed across three different continents.

After graduating from Waubonsie Valley High School, Ahonen moved to New York City to continue his education at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

The company was founded with the mission to "produce work of no moral judgment," and is "dedicated to an honest expression of the American condition..explor[ing] complex characters of moral ambiguity…"[7][8] The Amoralists first gained attention in 2009 with Ahonen's cult hit The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, which Time Out (magazine) called “the happiest surprise of the season.”[9] The New Yorker noted "the young company’s deep commitment and contagious exuberance brings to mind the vitality that distinguished the early off-broadway work of artists like Sam Shepard.

In the spring of 2013 it opened at Madrid's Teatro Espanol under the title Los Iluminados, directed by Julián Fuentes Reta,where it had an extended run along with subsequent tours throughout Spain.

[11] Ahonen followed up The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side with Happy in the Poorhouse, which The New York Times wrote "has a knockabout physicality that grabs your attention.

Compared repeatedly in mainstream reviews to a young Sam Shepard, Ahonen is ribald and charismatic, idiosyncratic and easy with the rough edges."

In April 2015, Ahonen directed the Los Angeles premiere of The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side at The Matrix Theatre Company to great critical acclaim.

The play ran in the summer of 2015 and was well received with The Charleston City Paper describing it as a "captivating, disturbing, and surprisingly uplifting play" [18] April 2017 brought the Spanish musical adaptation of Ahonen's The Bad and The Better to Madrid's TAI under the title, Los Malos Y Los Mejores.

The film stars Savannah Welch, Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go's, William Leroy, Rob Franco, Ben Reno, Cecilia Deacon, and Paul Sevigny.

[27] The surreal film was labeled as "Lynch-ian", "Bergman-esque" and "nearly impossible to categorize" [28][29] After a year on the festival circuit, it was released theatrically and on VOD on June 19, 2020.