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Jon Adam Ross is a founding artist and the managing director of The In[HEIR]itance Project, a national arts organization which practices an open artistic process to create theater from authentic community dialogue about shared inheritances. Jon has spent nearly 20 years making art with religious communities around the country as an actor, playwright and teaching artist. He has served as an artist in residence at Union Theological Seminary, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and many other religious and educational institutions. Jon was a Spielberg Fellow in Jewish Theater Education with the Foundation for Jewish Camp and received a fellowship from the Covenant Foundation to create the In[heir]itance Project in 2015. As an actor, Jon has performed his solo shows in over 90 cities around the globe. Notably, Jon has performed at the Guthrie Theater (MN), Playhouse on the Square (TN) and in NYC where his stage credits include: a dog, a 2,000 year old bird, an elderly orthodox Jew, a spurned housewife, a horse, a British naval officer in 1700’s Jamaica, a goat, Jesus Christ, a lawyer, a hapless police chief and a cyclops. Jon holds a BFA in Acting from NYU/Tisc