Arye Gross

Gross was born on March 17, 1960, in Los Angeles, California, the son of Sheri and Joseph Gross, who was an aerospace engineer and later worked in business. He and Lisa Schulz married in 1999 and they have one daughter born in 2006. ==Education and training ==

Gross attended public school and in 1977 was accepted to the University of California Irvine to study theater. Robert Cohen, then head of UCI's Drama Department later said, "I remember him as an undergrad student actor and knew he was quite good." The following summer he was accepted in the Professional Conservatory program at South Coast Repertory (SCR) in neighboring Costa Mesa, where Lee Shallat-Chemel was then the program director. She remembered how he handled Edgar's "nonsensical" passages in King Lear during scene study. "Arye found a visceral reality and the scene became filled with pathos and meaning. And it just blew me away. I had never seen, really, any actor do that." == Career ==

Stage Gross was part of SCR's acting company for three years, which culminated in his role in the world premiere of L.J. Schneiderman's Screwball. Director Frank Condon invited Gross to work with Teatro Campesino under the direction of Luis Valdez, which he did for a year. where he served as Managing Director. where he appeared in ''Mrs. Warren's Profession and as the title character in Uncle Vanya''. His South Coast Repertory credits also include the world premieres of Richard Greenberg's ''Our Mother's Brief Affair'', and Donald Margulies' Brooklyn Boy, which marked Gross' Broadway debut when it moved to New York. He also was in the 2016 world premiere of Eliza Clark's Future Thinking. ==Filmography==

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