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Clarinda Ross

Clarinda Ross

Clarinda Ross is a Los Angeles based actress and playwright. She is a recent graduate of UC-Riverside’s Low Residency MFA Program in Writing for Performance. Her play “Spit Like A Big Girl” was published by Applause Theatre Books 2015. Her newest play “#gunsense” was a semi-finalist for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival’s National New Play Award 2018.

Sept/Oct 2018

Love, M.

By Clarinda Ross

A letters play Based on interviews with Mothers, Sons, and AIDS Activists CHARACTERS DEBORAH, a woman in her 50s, a quick wit, well-to-do, travels. CHRIS, a man in his mid-20s, […]