Ryan Quinn
Ryan Quinn
MFA in Acting, Yale School of Drama · BA in Theater, UW Madison
He/Him
AEA, SAG, SDC
Ryan is an actor, director, and teacher.
As an actor, Ryan recently played the title role in Othello (Bedlam, Off-Broadway). Other Off-Broadway credits include The Crucible and Hedda Gabler (Bedlam), Whorl Inside a Loop (Second Stage), The Killer, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, and Hamlet (TFANA), and Vanity Fair (The Pearl). Representative regional: The Old Globe, Yale Rep, A.R.T., Portland Center Stage, Milwaukee Rep, The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF), and many others. TV/Film: Bedlam: The Series, Blindspot, Law & Order, Madam Secretary, Friends from College, The Blacklist: Redemption, Person of Interest, and others.
Ryan is the artistic director and a co-founder of Esperance Theater Company, directing Breitwisch Farm, Youth & Ambition, and Twelfth Night. Additionally, he has directed The Comedy of Errors, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and The Two Noble Kinsmen (HVSF); Fences (PA Shakespeare); God of Carnage, Dad’s Season Tickets, Lost Girl, Everybody, and So Thrive My Soul (Milwaukee Rep); and The Mountaintop (Arc Stages).
Ryan has spent over a decade working with high school, college, and early career actors and is currently Assistant Professor of Performance at SUNY New Paltz. He was previously on faculty at CMU, Pace, and Fordham. Other representative institutions include NYU, Long Island University, AADA, Lincoln Center, Bedlam Theater Company, HVSF, and others.
