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05-05-2026, 11:56 AM
‘Sleepaway Camp’ Star Jonathan Tiersten Has Passed Away at 60
We are sad to learn this morning that Jonathan Tiersten, best known to horror fans for his role in the original Sleepaway Camp, has passed away at the age of 60 years old.
TMZ reports, “Tiersten passed away last week at his home in New Jersey, according to his brother, William Tiersten. The medical examiner is investigating Jonathan’s cause of death.”
Jonathan Tiersten played Angela’s (Felissa Rose) cousin Ricky in the original 1980s slasher classic, a role he later reprised in the 2008 sequel Return to Sleepaway Camp.
Sleepaway Camp marked the teenage Tiersten’s feature film debut, and he returned to the horror genre decades later in a handful of films including The Perfect House, Redemption, Blood Reservoir, The House That Wept Blood, Terror Tales, Lake of Shadows, Toilet Zombie Baby Strikes Back, Last American Horror Show: Volume II, and the slasher Time’s Up.
In addition to his acting work, Jonathan Tiersten was also an accomplished musician. His IMDb bio states, “As a singer/songwriter, Tiersten made his presence felt on the Greenwich Village folk-rock/roots rock circuit in the late 1980s and early 1990s as one-half of the acoustic duo The Magic Box. Tiersten (whose first solo album, Heaven, was released in 1998) also has been a member of the alternative funk-rock band Gaphiltaphunk, and now leads the band TEN TIERS, whose debut album, Don’s Club Tavern: Part 1, was released in 2006.”
“Music is an enormous passion for me. Music is not what I do. It’s who I am,” he once said.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3949742/original-sleepaway-camp-star-jonathan-tiersten-has-passed-away-at-60/
We are sad to learn this morning that Jonathan Tiersten, best known to horror fans for his role in the original Sleepaway Camp, has passed away at the age of 60 years old.
TMZ reports, “Tiersten passed away last week at his home in New Jersey, according to his brother, William Tiersten. The medical examiner is investigating Jonathan’s cause of death.”
Jonathan Tiersten played Angela’s (Felissa Rose) cousin Ricky in the original 1980s slasher classic, a role he later reprised in the 2008 sequel Return to Sleepaway Camp.
Sleepaway Camp marked the teenage Tiersten’s feature film debut, and he returned to the horror genre decades later in a handful of films including The Perfect House, Redemption, Blood Reservoir, The House That Wept Blood, Terror Tales, Lake of Shadows, Toilet Zombie Baby Strikes Back, Last American Horror Show: Volume II, and the slasher Time’s Up.
In addition to his acting work, Jonathan Tiersten was also an accomplished musician. His IMDb bio states, “As a singer/songwriter, Tiersten made his presence felt on the Greenwich Village folk-rock/roots rock circuit in the late 1980s and early 1990s as one-half of the acoustic duo The Magic Box. Tiersten (whose first solo album, Heaven, was released in 1998) also has been a member of the alternative funk-rock band Gaphiltaphunk, and now leads the band TEN TIERS, whose debut album, Don’s Club Tavern: Part 1, was released in 2006.”
“Music is an enormous passion for me. Music is not what I do. It’s who I am,” he once said.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3949742/original-sleepaway-camp-star-jonathan-tiersten-has-passed-away-at-60/