Ryan Quinn
Ryan Quinn
MFA in Acting, Yale School of Drama
BA in Theater, UW Madison
AEA, SAG, SDC
He/Him
Ryan Quinn is an actor, director, and teacher. His recent stage work includes Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler (Bedlam, Off-Broadway). Other Off-Broadway credits include The Crucible (Bedlam), Whorl Inside a Loop (Second Stage), The Killer, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, and Hamlet (Theatre for a New Audience), and Vanity Fair (The Pearl). Regional theatre highlights include The Old Globe, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Portland Center Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.
On screen, Ryan has appeared in Bedlam: The Series, Blindspot (NBC), Law & Order (NBC), Madam Secretary (CBS), Friends from College (Netflix), Blacklist: Redemption (NBC), and Person of Interest (CBS).
As artistic director and co-founder of Esperance Theater Company, Ryan has directed Breitwisch Farm, Youth & Ambition, and Twelfth Night. His directing credits also include The Comedy of Errors, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Two Noble Kinsmen (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); Fences (PA Shakespeare); God of Carnage, Dad’s Season Tickets, Lost Girl, Everybody, and So Thrive My Soul (Milwaukee Rep); and Mountaintop (Arc Stages).
Ryan has over a decade of experience working with high school, college, and early-career actors. He currently serves on the faculty at Pace University and Fordham University teaching first- and second-year acting, and has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University. He has also taught at NYU, Vassar College, Long Island University, AADA, Lincoln Center, Bedlam Theater Company, and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.
