Soara-Joye Ross

Soara-Joye Ross, previously known as Joy Ross, Joye Ross, Joy E. T. Ross, and also known as Soara-Joyce Ross[1] (because of her name being misspelled) is a notable American actress and singer. Soara-Joye attended Nassau Community College majoring in Vocal Performance but after falling in love with doing musicals with Nassau's Theater Department she transferred after one year to The American Musical and Dramatic Academy [2] with a scholarship where she completed the program. She did began working professionally in theater but wasn't getting the roles she wanted so she decided to continue her studies mastering The Meisner Technique at The J. Beckson Studio in New York City. It was after that that her career began to flourish.

Her Broadway credits include Les Misérables the Revival and Dance Of The Vampires, where she made her Broadway debut. She starred in the Off-Broadway productions of Single Black Female at Playwrights Horizons and then The Duke on 42nd, Dessa Rose at Lincoln Center, where she was the second cover for La Chanze when she wasn't playing the role of Annabel. Jerry Springer: The Opera at Carnegie Hall, and was in "The Tin Pan Alley Rag" at The Laura Pels Theatre with The Roundabout Theatre Company as a cover for the roles of Treemonisha and Monisha, where she performed the role Monisha. Miss Ross has worked overseas as a soloist in the popular European show Palazzo Colombino,[3] done a tour of Ain't Misbehavin playing the role of "Charlayne" and Smokey Joe's Cafe, where she was a swing for the roles "B.J.", "Patti" and "Brenda", and a U.S. tour of Smokey Joe's Cafe with Gladys Knight. Ms. Ross played the role of "Mama Lila" in the 2009 New York Music Theatre Festival where she worked with Donna McKechnie[4] and won the "Best of Fest" Outstanding Individual Performance Award in the show written by Allan Harris entitled Cross That River.[5][6]

Regionally she has been in Aida (Aida) at The Arvada Center For The Performing Arts,[7] where she was nominated By the Colorado Guild: Outstanding Performance by and Actress in a musical, Tick Tick Boom (Susan) at The Tony Award winning Alliance Theater, From the Mississippi Delta, Ragtime (Sarah) at Gateway Playhouse and Weston Playhouse, Ain't Misbehavin' (Armelia) at The Huntington Theatre Company and Once On This Island (Asaka/Andrea) at Sacramento Music Circus and The Bay Street Theatre/Mill Mountain Theater. Ross has done numerous readings and workshops and continues to flourish in "The entertainment business" moving up the ladder of success one step at a time. You can also see her in the feature film Garden State with Zach Braff and Natalie Portman as the Handi-World Cashier.[1]

Ross started a support group called "OFF-STAGE" in 2006, where actors, singers and all other artsy folk would get together to brainstorm ideas and genuinely share, love, support and empower each other during the ups and especially the downs of "the business" in a respectful environment.

Ross was born in Queens, New York. She was adopted by Rita T. Ross (now Rita Soares) and Joseph Ross at a very young age. In 2005 she hired a private investigator to search for her birth family and was reunited with her birth mother Lavonne Patterson. Upon finding her mother she reunited with her paternal grandmother, maternal grandfather and years later her birth father Orick Sweetwine.

In September 2007, Ross was in rehearsals for a show in New York and after weeks of not feeling well was hospitalized the day before Opening Night where she was diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic,or "Divabetic" as she likes to be called. In 2010 she became a member of the not-for-profit organization ACT1 Diabetes. Since then she's been extremely active in the organization as Co Facilitator for the Young Women with Diabetes Support Group and Donations Coordinator for the Supply Exchange Program.[8]

Ms. Ross now resides in Brooklyn, New York with her Pomeranian, Lyric. She is working alongside a handful of talented artists on a new musical written by Jay Kuo. Ross is also working on her own solo piece about her own life.

Soara-Joye Ross is a member of the Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actor's Guild.

Broadway

Off-Broadway

National and European tours

Workshops and concerts

Film

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References

  1. 1 2 Soara-Joy Ross at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ Archived November 21, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Actor Bios & Cast List | Project Footlight Musical Theater Festival 2009". Projectfootlight.com. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  4. ↑ "McKechnie Will Choreograph Bashor, Gill and Ross in Cross That River at NYMF". Playbill.com. 2009-08-24. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  5. ↑ "Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Cross That River - 10/18/09". Talkinbroadway.com. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  6. ↑ "Sherie Rene Scott, Alice Ripley, Gavin Creel & Kelli O'Hara Set for NYMF's 2009 'Best of Fest,' 11/22". Broadwayworld.com. 2009-11-22. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
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  8. ↑ "Meet Soara-Joye « ACT1 Diabetes". Act1diabetes.org. 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  9. ↑ "Photo Coverage: 'THE TIN PAN ALLEY RAG' - After Party". Broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  10. ↑ "'Passing Strange's' Colman to Direct 'Single Black Female'". Broadwayworld.com. 2008-04-29. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  11. ↑ "Photo Preview: Dessa Rose Opens on Monday". Broadwayworld.com. 2005-03-17. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  12. ↑ "Kritzer, Testa, Walsh, Mercurio and Beguelin Among NYMF "Best of the Fest" Winners". Playbill.com. 2009-10-30. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
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