Ron Destro
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Ron Destro

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Ron Destro is a Kennedy Center award-winning writer, actor, director and teacher. His novel, The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne, was shortlisted in the Flash 500 Novel Opening Competition. It is an Elizabethan murder mystery whose solving reveals the true identity of William Shakespeare. He is also the editor of The Shakespeare Masterclasses, an invaluable compilation of rare classes and interviews with the world’s most renowned classical actors on the art of acting Shakespeare. Destro founded and runs 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. 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, such as Harvard University, Chautauqua Institution and the Edinburgh Skeptics Society. A proud father, Ron brags that he taught Christopher Reeve to smoke, was told by Groucho Marx to give somebody the finger, and nearly ran Michael York off a mountaintop in a toboggan.
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