Jonathan Judge-Russo

Judge-Russo is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, the British American Drama Academy, and The Actors Center. At the above combined institutions, he studied with Alan Langdon, Sir Ben Kingsley, Alan Rickman, Chris Bayes, Earle Gister, Edward Berkeley, and John Barton. He received a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing from Loyola University Maryland and graduated from Regis High School in 2001.

Jonathan Judge-Russo was a member of the cast of Jumpers for Goalposts at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, that received a 2016 nomination for a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Play. He was a member of the cast of Falling at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Other New York credits include such theatres as the Signature Theatre (Somewhere with You), The Cherry Lane Theatre (John Patrick Shanley’s Where’s My Money?), The Irish Repertory Theatre (Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon), the Irish Arts Center (The Irish Play), and the Irondale Center (Treasure Island). He has performed at the Metropolitan Opera on three occasions, in productions of La Fanciulla del West and Wozzeck. Judge-Russo has performed regionally in the world premiere of Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s Downtown Race Riot (New York Stage and Film), the United States premiere of Tom Wells’ Jumpers for Goalposts (Studio Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Troilus and Cressida, and Comedy of Errors (all with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company), as well as Othello with the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. He played a lead role in the First National Tour of Echoes of Ireland, written by Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt.

Jonathan Judge-Russo is the Founding Artistic Director of Animus Theatre Company. He has produced and acted in plays by John Patrick Shanley, Bob Glaudini, Les Lye Headland, Tennessee Williams, and William Shakespeare, at venues including Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre, the Cherry Lane Theatre, and Theatre Row.