Dev Ross

Dev has been nominated for 5 Emmys and received 2 I have not listed everything as I am still verifying the citations for the facts...but they exist. It is just a matter that I am a stickler for the facts. Dev is already noted on many other Wiki pages. Searching for her by name on Wiki, will already bring her name up, as will a search on IMDb and Google. She was part of the creative team, along with the Zaslove brothers, who are also on Wiki, who were Disney's "Hana-Barbera" of the 90's. Smacorder (talk) 04:39, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Dev Ross, a two-time Emmy recipient(and five-time nominee),, with a career which encompasses being a nationally acclaimed screenwriter, children's book author, performer, director, and producer in theater, film, and television industries, as noted below.

Writing Credits
Dev Ross, a graduate of UCLA has been writing for adults and children since before 1983. Include writing hit films and television for Disney, ABC, FOX KIDS, Universal Cartoon Studios, Cartoon Network, TLC, The Discovery Channel, Nickelodeon, Mattel, the Web, and PBS. Ross served two years as a story analyst for film production companies and then became a staff writer at Disney Studios where she also served as a voice director and "story doctor." Ross also taught digital screenwriting in South Korean universities on both the Graduate and Undergraduate levels and at the Samsung Corporation in Seoul.

Dev Ross wrote on the most popular shows during the 1990's, whose characters were household names and familiar icons. These included dinosaurs from "Land Before Time", Donald Duck's relatives from "Darkwing Duck", familiar personalities from "Winnie the Pooh" and "Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers", and new ones on shows like "Return of Jafar", "Monster High", "Clifford's Puppy Days", and the "Adventures from the Book of Virtues". Even familiar characters from movies made it to television with Dev's screenwriting on "Aladdin: TV Series" and "Little Mermaid: TV Series", and more.

Ross is also the author of over a dozen children's books for the popular “We Both Read” series.

Television awards
Prior to 2013, include:
 * Emmy Win, New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, 1993 "Outstanding Children's Animated Program"
 * Emmy Nomination, Raw Toonage, 1993 "Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program"
 * PBS Action in Children's Television Award for excellence in television writing
 * Emmy Award for educational children's series, TNRC PRESENTS
 * Humanitas Award for excellence in screenwriting, 2002 "Balto II: Wolf Quest"

Performing arts
Before turning to animation, Ross was the Artistic Director of the Emmy Award winning "Twelfth Night Repertory Company", a tri-city educational theatre and three time Emmy award winning television troop from 1980-1982 where she was a writer, director, and performer. Ross wrote and directed more than 70 plays for TNRC and Educational Theater Company, before leaving the schools. She even created a "synthesis of movement, text and sound", for which the schools became noted. Prior to 2013, Ross's Theatrical awards include:
 * Drama Logue Award for Best New Musical Play, Westwood Playhouse - "Once Upon a Genesis"

As of 2013, Ross is the creator and head writer of her own original web show called “The Rocks  .”

Ross's contributions at Disney (Partial List/Wiki Links Only)

 * Darkwing Duck
 * The Land Before Time
 * The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
 * The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
 * The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
 * The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water
 *  Balto II: Wolf Quest
 * TaleSpin