ABOUT US
Kennedy Center Award-winning playwright/director Ron Song Destro serves as the OSC founding director and Board President. Also a professional drama coach and actor, Mr. Destro is recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, created an Emmy-Award winning Chinese educational television program, and received critical acclaim for his play Hiroshima, a collaboration with Yoko Ono, which won the 1997 Kennedy Center New American Play Award.
He has trained, worked and taught with leading artists of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and the Shanghai Opera Theatre. He has lectured on the Shakespeare authorship question at many universities, including Harvard. His novel on this topic is currently being planned as a major Hollywood film. He is also Artistic Director of the Lone Star Shake-speare Festival in Texas. Mr. Destro's mentors include John Houseman, Kristin Linklater and John Barton.
OSC Board of Directors
Ron Song Destro.
Thomas Andolora, New York City music director and composer.
John Baron, educator and writer.
Siching Song, business entrepreneur and Screen Actors Guild member actress.
Hank Whittemore, Emmy Award-winning writer and Shakespeare researcher.
Siching Song, Ron Song Destro, Yoko Ono.
