Presenters' Resumes
Murray Ross
Murray Ross is the Artistic Director of TheatreWorks (of Colorado Springs), which he founded with colleagues in 1975. He has directed over 50 productions for TheatreWorks, including 20 seasons of the summer Shakespeare Festival. Recent work includes Romeo and Juliet, The Cherry Orchard, and King Lear has also directed for the Los Angeles Theater Center, The Shenandoah Shakespeare Company, and has created productions with symphony orchestras in Colorado Springs, Cincinnati, San Antonio and Phoenix. With the New York Baroque Dance Company and the Concert Royal, he directed Moliere's The Bourgeois Gentleman in Colorado Springs and New York in 2000. Stage adaptations include Plato's Symposium for the stage (with Lauren and Mark Arnest), Peer Gynt, The Bauhaus Follies, Lewis & Clark, Venus and Adonis, Huckleberry Finn and The Life of Frederick Douglass. His play, Monkey Business was produced at Wake Forest University this January. He is married to the celebrated painter and costumer Betty Ross.
