In 2018, the city of Santa Monica ordered assessments on all the buildings on Airport Avenue in the Santa Monica Municipal Airport. One of those buildings housed Ruskin Group Theatre, founded by John Ruskin in 2001.
Ruskin was having a good run at 3000 Airport Avenue. When he first launched his acting school, Anthony Hopkins taught the masterclass. Its productions have starred such celebrities as Rob Morrow (“Northern Exposure”) and Ray Abruzzo from “The Sopranos.”
“I knew that those assessments would lead to the demolition of many of the buildings on Airport Avenue,” explained Michael Myers, producing artistic director and Ruskin’s managing director since 2002. “When the assessments came back, lo and behold, it was going to take a lot of money to bring 3000 Airport Avenue to code.” Myers and his team contemplated the situation before them, but every scenario in their current location seemed too costly. They were also hoping to remain in Santa Monica, a city where Myers was born and raised and Ruskin had grown to love ever since he relocated from New York and rented an apartment at The Shores on Neilson Way. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 