Ross Corsair was born and raised overseas, living in Europe, Asia, and Africa until college. He spent much of his childhood creating vast battlefields in sandpiles, with armies of toy soldiers, inventing scenarios of epic drama and carnage.

Having survived this itinerant life, experiencing actual wars, coups, floods, and other shocks and jolts of reality, he felt himself in his college years drawn to the world of theater where the chaos of life was given a modicum of form.