Meet the Team

 Writer, Singer, Actor, Coach, Director, Producer

Award-winning screenwriter, children’s television writer, and children’s book author Dev Ross has been writing and performing for adults and children for over thirty years. She has received the following awards - The Action in Children’s Television Award, the Dramalogue Award for Best New Musical Children’s Play, an Emmy for her writing work at Disney, and the prestigious Humanitas Award for excellence in screenwriting. Dev has written family films and television for Disney, ABC, FOX, Universal, TLC, The Discovery Channel, AG Interactive, Scholastic, HIT Entertainment, and PBS. She’s written over a dozen published children’s books for the WE BOTH READ book series and worked extensively in story development for Fonda Films. Dev was Artistic Director, writer, actor for the Emmy Award Winning Twelfth Night Repertory Company, a tri-city educational touring theatre, Artistic Director and actor for the Educational Theater Company (ETC), an educational touring theatrical company targeting youth at risk. Dev also wrote and performed on the Emmy winning PBS children’s TV series TNRC Presents, toured extensively across the United States doing Theatre for Young Audiences. Locally Dev is the co-founder of Sedona Youth Theatre and half of the “The Two Lucy's" along with her creative partner Shondra Jepperson writing, producing and starring in original murder mysteries and their original musicals Hot Flashes On the Trail,  Striptease Falcon and Horse Tales & Cowboy Trails.

Singer-Composer,  Actor, Coach,  and Producer. 

Award winning songwriter, Shondra is an Alumni of the Juilliard School of Drama with extensive experience in the entertainment business. Along with leads in comedic, dramatic and musical theatre and voice over work for radio and television, she has performed her own concerts in showrooms in Reno, Las Vegas and throughout southern California, including on popular cruise ships and Sea World. Her music video Greed Incorporated won 2021 BEST Rock Song in the Artist's Forum International Music Festival in NYC. Finalist in the 2020 World Music & Independent Film Festival in Virginia, 2019 Semi-Finalist Bob Fosse Award in Chicago Amarcord Arthouse Television Awards and Winner of an American Tracks Music Award for Best Metal Song 2019. Her music video was also an Official Selection in TEN other Music & Film Festivals in Ireland, Los Angeles, NYC, Studio City, Las Vegas,  Virginia, Utah, Sedona, Jerome and Wexford, Ireland. She's written and co-produced four musicals with Dev; Weird Detention, Hot Flashes on the Trail, Horse Tales & Cowboy Trails, Delta Dental’s, The Mouth Project. Also theme songs for Gilda Radner Award Laugh for Life Shows Keep Sedona Beautiful, NO AZ Coalition Against Sex Trafficking, and The Humane Society.  Along with her private coaching practice, she is now offering her NEW online 27 video singing & stage performance program - Unlock the Singing Superstar In You. Locally Shondraa is the co-founder of Sedona Youth Theatre and half of the “The Two Lucy's" along with her creative partner Dev writing, producing and starring in original murder mysteries