Ron May

Ron is the founding Artistic Director for Stray Cat Theatre. Credits include Stupid Kids, The Dianalogues (published by Smith and Krause in their collection of Best Female Playwrights - with the Stray Cat production listed in the production credits), The Laramie Project, A Clockwork Orange, [sic], The Normal Heart, The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love/Suicide, Trainspotting, Fat Pig, 4.48 Psychosis, A Number, Pulp, Everything Will Be Different, An Impending Rupture of the Belly, columbinus, Blackbird, The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later and Speech and Debate. This season he will direct Melissa James Gibson's This for Actors Theatre and Learn to be Latina, Octopus and Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party for Stray Cat.

Outside the kitty condo, Ron has directed for Actors Theatre (Augusta, The Pursuit of Happiness, A View of the Harbor, and the Arizona premiere of boom), Nearly Naked Theatre, Black Theatre Troupe, ASU's Mainstage and Planet Earth Theatre.

Local acting credits include Millett in Nearly Naked Theatre's Fuddy Meers and Mason Marzac in Nearly Naked Theatre's Take Me Out.

During the summer of 2001, he spent time in New York as a fellow in The Lincoln Center Theatre Director's Lab. Ron currently pays the bills as the Patron Services guy at Actors Theatre.

email: rmay[at]straycattheatre.org

For my mom. And for Scotty J.