Dev Ross

Dev Ross
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1986–present

Dev Ross is an American screenwriter, children's book author, performer, director, and producer in theater, film, and television industries.

Ross is a writer in print, animation, and theater, for several media content providers including Disney,¹ ABC, Fox Kids, Universal Cartoon Studios, Cartoon Network, TLC, The Discovery Channel, Nickelodeon, Mattel, the Web, and PBS.¹ Ross worked as story analyst for film production companies and then became a staff writer at Disney Studios in 1991, where she also served as a voice director and "story doctor". During 2007, Ross worked for the Samsung Corporation in South Korea teaching university courses in digital screenwriting at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.¹

Ross wrote for several popular shows during the 1990s. These included Darkwing Duck, Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, Winnie the Pooh and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, The Return of Jafar, Monster High, Animated Classic Showcase, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Clifford's Puppy Days,¹ and the Adventures from the Book of Virtues.¹ She helped bring movie characters to television with Aladdin and The Little Mermaid.

Ross wrote a number of children's books for the popular "We Both Read" series.

• Ross, Dev (2009). Wild Animals of the United States. Treasure Bay. ISBN 978-1601152343.
• Ross, Dev (2008). Frank and the Balloon. Treasure Bay. ISBN 978-1601150127.
• Ross, Dev (November 2006). Fox's Best Trick Ever. Treasure Bay. ISBN 978-1891327704.

• The Return of Jafar
• Balto II: Wolf Quest
• The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
• The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
• The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
• The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water

Before turning to animation, Ross was the artistic director of the "Twelfth Night Repertory Company", a tri-city educational theatre and three time Emmy award-winning television troupe from 1980 to 1982 where she was a writer, director, and performer. Ross wrote and directed more than 70 plays for TNRC and Educational Theater Company, before leaving the schools. She even created a "synthesis of movement, text and sound", for which the schools became noted.

Prior to 2013, Ross's Theatrical awards include:

• Drama-Logue Award for Best New Musical Play, Westwood Playhouse - "Once Upon a Genesis"

As of 2013, Ross is the creator and head writer of her own original web show called "The Rocks."⁷⁸⁹