Ron is the founding President of the Board of Directors and Artistic Director for Optimist Theatre and currently serves as President and Treasurer of the corporation. He recently retired from nineteen years as Artistic Director of the Bristol Renaissance Faire to devote himself to work in the not-for-profit world. He has worked as the Artistic Director for Renaissance Faires in Virginia and Los Angeles, and served as an Assistant Professor on the theatre faculty of Carthage College in Kenosha,
Wisconsin.