Actor.
Actor.
Ron Destro
non-union
age range: 45 +
hair: grey eyes: brown
height: 5’6” weight: 150
SELECTED THEATRE.
Twelfth Night (off-Broadway) Feste (Clown) American Theatre of Actors, NYC
American Buffalo Donny Finborough Theatre, London
(Top Ten Show, Time Out)
Waiting for Godot Estragon Shanghai University Theatre, China
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Bottom Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon
All’s Well That Ends Well Parolles Kensington Gardens Bandstand London
As You Like It Jaques Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Paris
Richard II John of Gaunt/
Exton Flint Castle, Wales
Macbeth King Duncan/
Siward Birnam Wood, Scotland
Hamlet Gravedigger Hamlet’s Grave, Elsinore, Denmark
The Merchant of Venice Old Gobbo (Clown) Belmont Palace, Venice, Italy
Henry V Salisbury Azincourt Battlefield, France
Richard III Tyrell/Oxford Bosworth Field, England
Caucasian Chalk Circle Nephew Judge USC/John Houseman, director, L.A.
Three Penny Opera Filch USC/John Blankenchip, director, L.A.
Measure for Measure Pompey (Clown) Oxford Shakespeare Company, NYC
Love’s Labors Lost Costard (Clown) Oxford Shakespeare Company, NYC
Romeo and Juliet Clown/Apothecary Oxford Shakespeare Company, NYC
Double Falsehood (US premiere) Camillo Oxford Shakespeare Company, NYC
At Mama Taylor’s Don SoHo Repertory Theatre, NYC
The Norman Conquests Norman Brooklyn College Theatre, NYC
A Day Picasso Mona Lisa Stole Alfred Jarry CAP21 Studios, NYC (staged reading)
West Side Story Chino Chautauqua Players, Jamestown, NY
Desire Caught by the Tail Big Foot BCC Theatre, Cocoa, FL
Indira’s Daughters (reading) Betielle Williamstown Theatre Festival, MA
(w/ Allison Janney, Diane Venora, Peri Gilpin)
FILM/TV.
O My Godfather (TV pilot) Maître d’ Roz Clancy Productions
Amazing Stories Mobster Lawyer Japanese Television
Dannon Yogurt Industrials 4 leading roles Deerfield Productions
Credit, and How To Get It Pet Store customer Vision Films
Five-Minute English weekly host/creator Shanghai Television, China
I Wanna Hold Your Hand featured extra Steven Spielberg/Paramount
Oh, God! day player Carl Reiner/Warner Bros
Law & Order day player NBC Universal Television
It Stalked the Night (short) lead USC Cinema
COMMERCIALS.
HCA Healthcare lead Miami
Dave’s Pest Control lead A7 TV, Orlando
China Silk Ties lead Shanghai, China
TRAINING.
Movement Laban technique, June Kemp, Royal Academy Dramatic Art (RADA), London.
Acting & Improv John Houseman, USC, Malcolm McKay, Ben Benison, RADA.
Shakespeare 1 year at RADA. John Barton, Royal Shakespeare Co, private coaching,10 yrs.
Voice Kristin Linklater, Columbia Univ., Cicely Berry, RSC, Robert Palmer, RADA.
Comedy Lucille Ball, Sherwood Oaks Film School, Hollywood, CA.
Stage Combat Henry Marshall, RADA.
Masterclasses Derek Jacobi, F Murray Abraham, Fiona Shaw, Jeremy Irons, Glenda Jackson.
AWARDS & SKILLS.
Kennedy Center & National Forensics awards. Shakespearean acting, comedic timing and physicality, absurdist theatre, stand-up, improv, dialects, driver’s license, passport, acting teacher, author of The Shakespeare Masterclasses, Artistic Director, Oxford Shakespeare Co., team player.
Selected Theatre.
TWELFTH NIGHT Feste
off-Broadway, NYC
AMERICAN BUFFALO Donny
(Top 10 Shows, Time Out Magazine)
Finborough Th, London
WAITING FOR GODOT Estragon
Shanghai, China
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Bottom
Stratford-upon-Avon
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Parolles
Kensington Gardens, London
AS YOU LIKE IT Jaques
Parc d Buttes Chaumont, Paris
RICHARD II John of Gaunt/Exton
Flint Castle, Wales
MACBETH King Duncan/Siward
Birnam Wood, Scotland
HAMLET Gravedigger
Elsinore, Denmark
MERCHANT OF VENICE Old Gobbo
Belmont Palace, Venice
HENRY V Salisbury
Azincourt Battlefield, France
RICHARD III Tyrell/Oxford
Bosworth Field, England
CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
Nephew Judge
USC/John Houseman, dir.
THREE PENNY OPERA Filch
USC/John Blankenchip, dir.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE Pompey
LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST Costard
DOUBLE FALSEHOOD Camillo
ROMEO & JULIET Clown/Apothecary
OSC, New York City
DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL Big Foot
BCC Theatre, Cocoa, FL
WEST SIDE STORY Chino
Chautauqua Players
AT MAMA TAYLOR’S Don
SoHo Repertory Theatre, NYC
THE NORMAN CONQUESTS Norman
Brooklyn College Theatre, NYC
Film and TV.
O MY GODFATHER (pilot) Maitre d’
Roz Clancy Productions
AMAZING STORIES Mobster Lawyer
Japanese TV
DANNON YOUGURT (industrials)
4 leading roles
Deerfield Productions
FIVE-MINUTE ENGLISH weekly host
Shanghai Television
Commercials.
Daves’s Pest Control lead
A7 TV, Orlando
China Silk Ties lead
Shanghai, China
Training.
John Barton, Cicely Berry, John Houseman, Lucille Ball, Kristin Linklater, Ben Benison, Malcolm McKay, Henry Marshall, June Kemp.
Awards & Skills.
Kennedy Center & National Forensics awards. Shakespearean acting, comedic timing and physicality, absurdist theatre, stand-up, improv, dialects, driver’s license, passport, acting teacher, team player.
BACKSTAGE PAGE.
https://www.backstage.com/u/ron-destro/
ACTOR REELS.
https://www.backstage.com/u/ron-destro/media/videos