Ron Russell

Ron Russell has co-founded four theatres that still produce today: the nationally- acclaimed Summer Theatre Enrichment Project at El Centro in Lorain, OH (1992); Swine Palace Productions in Louisiana, while receiving his MFA-Directing from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Barry Kyle (1992-1994); UBI Rep Theatre in San Diego (1995); and Epic Theatre Ensemble in 2001. With Epic, where he is Executive Director, he has directed 16 Off-Broadway productions, including world premieres of Kate Fodor’s Hannah and Martin and Vern, Thiessen’s Einstein’s Gift; Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Richard III: Born With Teeth. In other public performances for Epic, he co-adapted and directed a touring in-school Antigone (OBIE Award) and Ibsen’s Pillars of Society (International Ibsen Award, 2011), as well as touring productions of Keith Josef Adkins’ Sugar and Needles and Dominique Morisseau’s Mend. He has also designed sound for award-winning productions of Nilaja Sun’s No Child... (OBIE Award) and Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End. His teaching experience includes over 50 public schools, reaching over 18,000 youth, and his work as an educator in NYC has been recognized by citations from the Municipal Arts Society and Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg.

Previous DPT Work

No Child… — Season Three
Pike Street — Season Three