Ms. Ross played the role of "Mama Lila" in the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival where she worked with Donna McKechnie[3] and won the "Best of Fest" Outstanding Individual Performance Award in the show written by Allan Harris entitled Cross That River.
[4][5] Regionally she has been in Aida (Aida) at The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities,[6] where she was nominated By the Colorado Guild: Outstanding Performance by and Actress in a musical, Tick Tick Boom (Susan) at the Alliance Theater, From the Mississippi Delta, Ragtime (Sarah) at Gateway Playhouse and Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Ain't Misbehavin' (Armelia) at The Huntington Theatre Company and Once On This Island (Asaka/Andrea) at Sacramento Music Circus and The Bay Street Theatre/Mill Mountain Theater.
Upon finding her mother, she reunited with her paternal grandmother, maternal grandfather and years later her birth father Orick Sweetwine.
However, since Ross wasn't getting the roles she wanted, she attended J. Beckson Studio in New York to continue learning the Meisner Technique for acting.
In September 2007, Ross was in rehearsals for a show in New York and after weeks of not feeling well was hospitalized the day before opening night where she was diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic.
Since then she's been extremely active in the organization as Co-Facilitator for the Young Women with Diabetes Support Group and Donations Coordinator for the Supply Exchange Program.