Jon Adam Ross is a widely acclaimed Jewish theatre artist. He has created original works in both the commercial and educational spheres. Holder of a BFA in Acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Jon is currently on tour with his new solo show, God of Our Fathers, in which he plays all the members of a fictional Jewish family living through a generation of assimilation. And he has performed his first solo show, Walking in Memphis: The Life of a Southern Jew, Off-Broadway and around the globe. Other credits include Grandpa/German in Fourplay (Ripple Theater Company); Thomas Denny in Pyrates! (Theater for the New City); Kalman in The Underwater Palace, Schwartz in The Jewbird, and Ishai in The Hero of Kabul (Northwoods Ramah Theater); and Atticus Finch in the Experimental Theatre Wing's Looking for Boo Radley: An Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Jon is also a founding company member of Storahtelling and the Northwoods Ramah Theater Company. Jon's acting roots stem from his long-term association with Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, where he serves as Director of the Performing Arts. Aside from acting, Jon has served as faculty for the Cornerstone Fellowship and the Spielberg Fellowship in Jewish Theater Education (Foundation for Jewish Camp). Directing credits include First Supper and Wrestlingod (Storahtelling), Inthebeginning, This is a Test. and I am Jonah (Anshe Emet Synagogue, Chicago), Hardball, a play about a Jewish baseball player (Playwright’s Forum, Memphis), the benefit reading of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite for Opening Act NYC, and Elvis Does Chanukah for which he was interviewed on MSNBC.