Well-known and well-loved in the theater community, Siebert passed away this past Thursday, December 8th 

Ron Siebert was an extraordinarily versatile and talented actor and was a proud member of long-standing of all three professional acting unions. He has worked in more than 60 theatres across America, from Broadway to Boca Raton, from Sarasota to Sacramento to Pittsburgh, playing a wide variety of roles. 

Our Yvonne Hudson is working on a feature story to be posted later in the week, including comments from those theater makers Siebert worked with in his expansive career.

In a wide rainging career, Siebert appeared on Broadway in the award-winning The Changing Room and with James Earl Jones in The Iceman Cometh at the prestigious Circle in The Square Theatre. 

Some of the roles he has played are the title roles in The Misanthrope, Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus. He was Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, Ferdinand in The Tempest, and Corin/LeBeau in As You Like It. 

At the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, he was Poins in a combined version of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, along with George Hearn, David Selby, and Pittsburgh’s own Tom Atkins. 

Further roles include Henry in The Real Thing at the Arizona Theatre Company, Edward Chamberlayne in T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party, Cassius in Julius Caesar, and the director in Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Indiana Rep. Also played Marc in Art, Paul Sycamore in You Can’t Take It With You and Larry Vauxhall in Inspecting Carol, all at the Florida Rep. 

At the Florida Studio Theatre, he appeared in Opus, Ruined, Race, and the world premiere of the staged version of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. At the GEVA Theatre in Rochester, New York, he appeared as Hildy Johnson in The Front Page and Michael in Dancing at Lughnasa. 

In addition to his theatre work, he appeared on most of the daytime dramas broadcast from New York City, including One Life To Live, All My Children, Guiding Light, Ryan’s Hope, Loving, and Another World. He appeared as the younger Charles Francis Adams II on the acclaimed PBS Production, The Adams Chronicles.

Among the people he has worked with and/or coached are Ann Hathaway, Gillian Jacobs, Megan Hilty, James Earl Jones, Christine Baranski, John Lithgow, and Mike Nichols. 

In Pittsburgh, he was seen as Uncle Peck in How I Learned To Drive at the Off The Wall, the title role in Lamarck at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Morrie Schwartz in Tuesdays With Morrie at the Mountain Playhouse, Jerome Watkins in Henceforward at PICT and as King Lear in Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks production.

Further, Ron has had extensive teaching experience working as a coach for the Pittsburgh Public Theatre’s annual Shakespeare contest since its inception in 1995 and taught for 17 years in the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama pre-college program. 

You can find personal tributes to Ron on Facebook by searching for Ron Siebert.

This post will be updated with funeral arrangements when they are available.

Note: We obtained credits for roles and shows performed from his talent agency bios and other industry databases, our sincere apologies for any errors or omissions.

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