Soara-Joye Ross

Who is Soara-Joye Ross?

Soara-Joye Ross, previously known as Joy Ross, Joye Ross, Joy E. T. Ross, and also known as Soara-Joyce Ross is a notable American actress and singer. Soara-Joye attended Nassau Community College majoring in Vocal Performance but after falling in love with doing musicals with Nassau's Theater Department she transferred after one year to The American Musical and Dramatic Academy with a scholarship where she completed the program. She did began working professionally in theater but wasn't getting the roles she wanted so she decided to continue her studies mastering The Meisner Technique at The J. Beckson Studio in New York City. It was after that that her career began to flourish.

Her Broadway credits include Les Misérables the Revival and Dance Of The Vampires, where she made her Broadway debut. She starred in the Off-Broadway productions of Single Black Female at Playwrights Horizons and then The Duke on 42nd, Dessa Rose at Lincoln Center, where she was the second cover for La Chanze when she wasn't playing the role of Annabel. Jerry Springer: The Opera at Carnegie Hall, and was in "The Tin Pan Alley Rag" at The Laura Pels Theatre with The Roundabout Theatre Company as a cover for the roles of Treemonisha and Monisha, where she performed the role Monisha. Miss Ross has worked overseas as a soloist in the popular European show Palazzo Colombino, done a tour of Ain't Misbehavin playing the role of "Charlayne" and Smokey Joe's Cafe, where she was a swing for the roles "B.J.", "Patti" and "Brenda", and a U.S. tour of Smokey Joe's Cafe with Gladys Knight. Ms. Ross played the role of "Mama Lila" in the 2009 New York Music Theatre Festival where she worked with Donna McKechnie and won the "Best of Fest" Outstanding Individual Performance Award in the show written by Allan Harris entitled Cross That River.