Marsha Ross is a multi-media artist whose achievement in film making, journalism and writing, as well as graphic arts have received international recognition.  Her artwork, which has been shown in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco and New Delhi, often offers the viewer scathing insights into modern society.  Her subjects include political satire, drug abuse, sexuality, spirituality, the Hollywood system, feminism and rock n’ roll.  

 

She has traveled the world, taking inspiration from places like Burma, Nepal, Kathmandu, Tiger Tops, Western Sahara, Nairobi, as well as Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Switzerland, Florence, Portofino, Northern Africa, Mombasa and India.  She also writes comedy.  She helped the Polisario to be  come a country, the Western  Sahara,  and worked at the UN  to stop US from spending  millions of dollars in weapons and napalm towards this end.

 

She created LA’s first photographic art gallery, Photosphere. She  graduated with honors from UCLA  with a B.S. in Psychology and an MFA in theatre arts also from UCLA.  She created a game for the Los Angeles World Hunger Event, which was attended, televised and played by over 200 hundred people at the LA Convention Center.  She has written cover stories for New York Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine and New West Magazine.  She studied with Lee Strasberg, Eric Weissman and Milton Glaser, and was recruited and paid to tutor  and ghostwrite  for HRH Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majid bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia at the Georgetown Graduate School of Foreign Affairs in Washington D.C.,  while living in Langley. Virginia.      

 

Marsha also writes romantic comedy screenplays. Her latest script Cinderella Faces Reality, which she co-authored with Richard Nathan, a very funny playwrite and Shakespearian scholar,  is in development.