Ron Destro
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Ron Destro

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Ron Destro is a proud dad and a Kennedy Center award-winning author, actor, and director. He and his Shakespearean novel, THE STARRE, THE MOONE, THE SUNNE, with audiobook narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi, have been named Best New Author, Book of the Year 2nd Runner-Up, Audiobook of the Year, and Hawthorne Prize Finalist. It is an Elizabethan murder mystery whose solving reveals the true identity of William Shakespeare. He also wrote THE SHAKESPEARE AUTHORSHIP QUESTION FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, LAZY LOUTS & KNOTTY-PATED KNAVES, and was the editor of THE SHAKESPEARE MASTERCLASSES, an invaluable compilation of rare classes and interviews with the world’s most renowned classical actors. Destro founded the Oxford Shakespeare Company based in New York and London, which presents professional masterclasses and trains actors to perform Shakespeare plays in their historic settings, such as Birnam Wood, Elsinore, Venice, Flint Castle, Azincourt and Bosworth Field. He received the Kennedy Center New American Play Award for his play HIROSHIMA, for which Yoko Ono wrote the original score when produced off-Broadway. His other plays have been produced in the US, UK and China. Destro earned degrees from the University of Southern California, Brooklyn College, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Marymount Program. His mentors include John Houseman, Cicely Berry, F Murray Abraham, Lucille Ball and John Barton. He has taught acting, directing and playwriting at many universities, and has lectured on the Shakespeare authorship question at various venues like Harvard University, Chautauqua Institution, and the Edinburgh Skeptics Society. Ron brags that he taught Christopher Reeve to smoke, was told by Groucho Marx to give somebody the finger, was banned for life from Caesar’s Palace by Frank Sinatra, and nearly ran Michael York off a mountaintop in a toboggan.
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