Ron received a B.A. from the University of Lethbridge in 1985 and a M.F.A in Theatre Directing from the University of Calgary in 1988, where he studied with Keith Turnbull (Founder of N.D.W.T theatre and premiere director of James Reaney's Donnelly Trilogy.) He also spent a year apprenticing with Nick Hutchinson (Director of the English Section of the National Theatre School and son of actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft) at his company, the Caravan Farm Theatre in Armstrong, B.C., where Ron initiated the company's first outdoor winter production, The Coming of the Kings by Ted Hughes.

Ron's teaching career at the University of Lethbridge began with a sessional appointment in 1988; since then he has graduated to Associate Professor and has taught courses in acting, directing, improvisation, playwriting, script analysis, performance studies and creativity. He has also directed numerous Department productions, including The Tempest (Shakespeare), Rhinoceros (Ionesco), You Can't Take It With You (Kaufman and Hart), The Visit (Durrenmatt), and Lysistrata (Aristophanes). Ron is also a playwright; his latest work, The Knowing Bird, premiered at Alberta Theatre Projects Pan Canadian playRites Festival in February, 2007. The play was also a finalist in the 2005 Herman Voaden Canadian National Playwrighting Festival, sponsored by Queen’s University. His play 17 Dogs, which premiered at Workshop West Theatre in Edmonton in October 2003, will be published in the Fall 2008 edition of Canadian Theatre Review, along with an interview of Ron conducted by his U of L colleague, Dr. Shelley Scott. 17 Dogs was also one of nine plays chosen from more than 200 submissions to be featured at the National Arts Centre's On The Verge festival of New English Canadian plays in June 2003. The play was also featured as a "Platform Play" at Alberta Theatre Projects' playRites festival in February, 2003. Ron's other plays include:

• Marg Szkaluba: (Pissy's Wife), which premiered at Theatre Network in 1993 and was nominated for an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award (Best New Play in Edmonton).
• Dirt, which premiered at Theatre Network in 1996 and was nominated for an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award (Best New Play in Edmonton).
• Pretty Blue, which won the 1993 Alberta Culture Playwrighting Award and premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto.
• Sifting Secrets, a finalist in the 1993 Theatre BC Canadian National Playwrighting competition.
• Respectable, which premiered at the 2001 Alberta Theatre Projects' playRites Festival, was nominated for a Betty Mitchell Award (Best New Play in Calgary).
• The Dead Box, Edmonton Fringe Festival, 2001.
• Leather Leather, which premiered at the 1991 University of Lethbridge Festival of the Arts and in 1999 toured the Canadian Fringe circuit.

Dirt, Marg Szkaluba (Pissy's Wife), and Pretty Blue are published by Red Deer Press in a collection titled Three Really Nasty Plays. The book won the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama from the Writer's Guild of Alberta in 1998. Ron was recently inducted into the University of Lethbridge Alumni Association Honour Society. He was also chosen for inclusion in Alberta Playwright Network’s Theatre 100, a book which honours 100 people who have made a significant contribution to Alberta Theatre over the past 100 years.