Jonathan Judge-Russo (he/him)
Summer Faculty:
TV & Film Self Tape Seminar
Jonathan is an award-winning actor and producer from Brooklyn, New York and a 2008 CITS Alum. He currently appears as Agent McClain in season 2 of “American Rust” alongside Jeff Daniels.
Select Off-Broadway: Drama Desk Nominated Falling (Minetta Lane), Beyond the Horizon (Irish Rep), Somewhere with You (Signature), Treasure Island (Irondale), Ask/Tell (LAByrinth – dir. Philip Seymour Hoffman), La Fanciulla del West (Lincoln Center), Wozzeck (Lincoln Center), The Christmas Revels (Symphony Space), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Cherry Lane), Collected Shorts by Theresa Rebeck (dir. Pamela Adlon), Where’s My Money?, The Irish Play (dir. Ted Mann), and The Seagull (dir. Alan Langdon).
First National Tour: Echoes of Ireland.
Regional: Music City (TM Nominee, Best Actor – CFRT), Jumpers for Goalposts (Helen Hayes Nom. – Studio Theatre, Downtown Race Riot (NYS&F), Smile (Deane), Othello (BSF), Troilus and Cressida (GBTA Award), Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In London, Judge-Russo appeared in The Philanderer and Twelfth Night.
Other select TV and Film: Jeremy in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, multiple appearances on “Law & Order: SVU”, “FBI: Most Wanted”, “Elementary”, “White Collar”, “Black Box”, A Rainy Day in New York (Woody Allen), Eat Me, A Slice and A Sandwich, The Aftershock, and Chess.
Jonathan is the Founding Artistic Director of Animus Theatre Company, an actors’ ensemble founded by four CITS alums which has produced 50+ plays, musicals, festivals, and readings since its 2011 inception. Jonathan is also a Founding Producing Partner with Noble Heart Films.