Stuart Ross Directed last season’s Enter Laughing–The Musical (Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts). Earlier this season in New York he directed Plaid Tidings and Conrack for the York Theatre Company. Perhaps he is best known as the creator, writer and director of Forever Plaid. In addition to directing the original New York production, the Los Angeles Company and companies across the U.S. and around the world, he directed the movie version that is fast becoming a perennial favorite for PBS Pledge Drives. Stuart also created and directed the holiday sequel, Plaid Tidings and the glee club version, The Sound of Plaid. His Southern California directing credits include: Promises, Promises starring Jason Alexander, Jean Smart, Fred Willard and Allan Thicke; Brigadoon with Marin Mazzie, Jason Daniely, Deb Gibson and Orson Bean; and It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s Superman (all for Reprise!); It’s A Wonderful Life starring Alfred Molina, Michael Richards, Tony Shaloub, Sharon Lawrence and Orson Bean (Pasadena Playhouse); The Boswell Sisters and Breaking Up (San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre); Silk Stockings (Musical Theatre West), and he received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, which he co-produced with the late Joan Stein. Mr. Ross wrote the script and cowrote the lyrics for New York’s Public Theater’s production of Radiant Baby, directed by George C. Wolfe (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel award nominee for Best Musical) He also wrote and directed Diahann Carroll: Life and Time, which played to sell out crowds at Feinstein’s in NYC and on tour. On Broadway he co-wrote the book (with Barry Keating) for the Tony nominated musical Starmites as well as for The Radio City Music Hall Easter Show. Other New York credits include A Leap of Faith, Heebie Jeebies, Not So New Faces, Tea with Bea and Fun With Dick and Jane: The Musical. He has worked as some of the country’s most prestigious theatres, including Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Goodspeed Opera House, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, and The Walnut Street Theatre to name a few. He served as director, dramaturg, and/or writer at the National Music Theatre Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. His television work includes such shows as Frasier, and PBS’ Great Performances’ series.