Ron Scot Fry
Skills
Dialects
Stage Combat
Performing on Horseback
Fine Art Painting and Sculpting
Fire Eating
Juggling
Many Microsoft Applications
Numbers
Directed over seventy-five productions
Wrote over fifty scripts for theatres, festivals and schools
Created dozens of larger-than-life parade puppets and stilt characters
Brought over fifty characters to life for audiences from five to three thousand
Ron Fry’s work has been seen by more than three and a half million people.
Lead
Optimist Theatre
Founding Artistic Director
1992 - Present
Directed The Tempest for Milwaukee’s first free Shakespeare in the Park
Renaissance Entertainment Productions
Artistic Director - Bristol Renaissance Faire
1990 - 2008
Artistic Director - Renaissance Pleasure Faire
2006 - 2007
Artistic Director - Virginia Renaissance Faire
1995 - 1999
Teach
Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
Assistant Professor, Speech Communication and Theatre
1986 - 1992
Bristol Academy of Performing Arts
Creator and Director
1992 - 2008
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist, Commedia dell’Arte and Acting Styles
1999 - 2007
Milwaukee Public Theatre
Improvisation, Circus Skills
Current
Learn
MA in Drama
University of Virginia, 1985
BA, Speech Comm. and Theatre
Carthage College
Magna cum Laude with honors, 1983
“Training the Trainer” Workshops, 2004
The Second City, Chicago
Design Internship,
Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis 1981
Production Fellowship,
Milwaukee Repertory Company 1982
Father of Two
I am a life long learner ...
I believe ...
... in the power of imagination and hard work.
... that leadership is helping people achieve beyond their own expectations.
... that if everything I try works, I’m not trying enough new things.
... in taking chances.
... in striving to make the world a better place.
... that I work best when when the stakes are high and the odds are long.
