has designed lighting for a number of artists, choreographers, and companies including Ellen Hemphill, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Christopher Wheeldon, Richard Tanner, Damian Woetzel, Robert Weiss, Tyler Walters, Mark Dendy, Liz Lerman, Amanda Miller, Clay Taliaferro, the National Opera, The North Carolina Dance Theater, The Pennsylvania Ballet, The North Carolina Opera, Ballet Hawaii, Play Makers Rep, & Nnenna Freelon. He was the Resident Lighting Designer for The Duke University Institute of the Arts, Ann Carlson, and Marlies Yearby's Movin' Spirits Dance Theater. In addition, Ross has worked as Production Manager for the American Dance Festival, Carolina Ballet, and for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble Creative Exchanges Program and also worked on the faculty of the Theater Studies Department at Duke University. He is a founding member of Carolina Ballet where he is currently the Resident Lighting Designer. Ross lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.