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Johnathan Ross & Desmond Thorne

Teaches at Magnet Training Center

Johnathan Ross
Johnathan is an actor and producer from Huntsville, Alabama, with an engineering background. He has been performing comedy in New York since 2014 and has studied at Magnet Theater and UCB developing his comedic talent with the teachings of Peter McNerney, Megan Gray, Louis Kornfeld, Keisha Zollar, Molly Lloyd, Chet Seigel, and many more. Johnathan is involved with Remix (the Diversity Sketch Lab) and also performs for Story Pirates, the children's theater company, as well as with his indie sketch team ShondaNights. 

He co-writes and co-stars in the web series Six Story Walk-Up. He performed in the 2015 NY Sketch Festival and has a one man improv act called "Hold My Drank." Johnathan is a friendly soul who loves to talk about TV and Video games including (but not limited to) Mr. Robot, Walking Dead, West World, Atlanta, Destiny 2, TitanFall2, and WatchDogs2.

Desmond Thorne
Desmond is a screenwriter and director for film and television. His previous work includes Smart, Funny, and Black (TruTV pilot), Funny Style (BET Digital), and the short films The Disruption and Roaring 20’s (co-written/co-directed by Evan Berke). He has also written for several sketch shows in New York City and is a graduate of the Magnet Theater Directing Fellowship Program and UCB's Advanced Study Sketch program. He is currently the director of BoogieManja sketch team "Mom's Night Out". 

As an actor, he has appeared at regional theaters such as The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey and Connecticut Repertory Theater. He performed in shows with the independent NYC sketch team Nerds on Fire, and debuted his solo show "The Gallery of a Fat Black Man" directed by Dan Hodapp, in Summer 2014 at The People's Improv Theater.

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