{"id":53941,"date":"2025-01-30T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/?p=53941"},"modified":"2025-01-30T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T02:22:19","slug":"steve-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/2025\/01\/steve-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominee Interview Series: Steve Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we announce the winners of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/2025\/01\/2024-nominees-theatre\/\">2024 Critics&#8217; Pick Awards<\/a>, we&#8217;re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stratford Festival stalwart Steve Ross not only had the season of his career at the festival this past summer, appearing in <strong><em>Something Rotten<\/em><\/strong> and taking on the flashy starring role in<strong> <em>La Cage aux Folles<\/em><\/strong>, but he also had a hit down the road with Here For Now Theatre as his autobiographical play<strong> <em>12 Dinners<\/em><\/strong> was a highlight of that fast-growing company&#8217;s season. Steve is part of our first ever slate of <strong>Artist of the Year<\/strong> nominees (usually it&#8217;s a standalone award announced with the winners) and we&#8217;re thrilled he took the time to chat with us about his incredible 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out this and all our other interviews and series on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/my-entertainment-world\/id1110905002\">podcast feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9460\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-53941-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SteveRoss.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SteveRoss.mp3\">https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SteveRoss.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SteveRoss.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/?powerpress_pinw=53941-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SteveRoss.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"SteveRoss.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/my-entertainment-world\/id1110905002?mt=2&amp;ls=1#episodeGuid=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myentertainmentworld.ca%2F%3Fp%3D53941\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics&#8217; Pick Awards, we&#8217;re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. &nbsp; Stratford Festival stalwart Steve Ross not only had the season of his career at the festival this past summer, appearing in Something Rotten and taking on the flashy starring role in La Cage aux [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Nominee Interview Series: Steve Ross","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2262,3],"tags":[2457,2307,488,1952,2367,15,17,822,853,489,1788,1954,363,2329],"coauthors":[1858],"class_list":["post-53941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-podcast","category-theatre","tag-2457","tag-actor-interviews","tag-awards","tag-critics-pick-awards","tag-here-for-now","tag-interviews","tag-musical-theatre","tag-nominee-interview-series","tag-playwrights","tag-podcast","tag-stratford-festival","tag-theatre-awards","tag-theatre-interviews","tag-writer-interviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MixCollage-28-Jan-2025-08-34-PM-784-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54000,"url":"https:\/\/www.myentertainmentworld.ca\/2025\/01\/2024-nominee-interview-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":53941,"position":0},"title":"The 2024 Nominee Interview Series","author":"Kelly Bedard","date":"29 January 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Before we announce the winners of our\u00a02024 Critics\u2019 Pick Awards, we\u2019re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. 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