Ryan Duncan

Ryan comes from the Washington D.C. area and holds a degree in Foreign Language from George Mason University and La Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Broadway: Gettin' the Band Back Together (Drama Teacher/Nick Styler/Mouthfeel Mate), Shrek (Piggie-Bricks/Donkey u.s.), Off-Broadway: Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody (The Club), Joy (Laura Pels Theatre), Titanique (AsylumNYC), Nassim (Barrow Street, City Center), Liberty: A Monumental New Musical (Theatre 80 & 42West), Altar Boyz (New World Stages, Drama League nomination), Soul Doctor (New York Theatre Workshop), The Yellow Brick Road (TWUSA-Lucille Lortel), It Must Be Him (Peter Jay Sharp at Playwrights Horizons), theAtrainplays (Neighborhood Playhouse and New World Stages), Minnie's Boys and The Body Beautiful (York), The Fifth Column (Mint), My First Time (New World Stages), Real Danger (EAT-Theatre 4).

Regional: Maggie and Passing Through (Goodspeed, CT), Distant Thunder (Lyric Theatre and FAM, OK), The Most Beautiful Room in New York (Long Wharf Theatre, CT), Joy and Gettin' the Band Back Together (George Street Playhouse, NJ), Striking 12 (Good Theater, ME), Shrek (5th Avenue, Seattle), tick, tick...BOOM! (Adirondack Theatre Festival, NY), I'm Not Rappaport (pre-Broadway wit Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen), 1776 and A Christmas Carol (Ford's, D.C.), Side Show (Signature, VA), Forever Plaid (Temple, NC), Hair (Studio Theatre, D.C.), etc.

Film/TV: "Blue Bloods", "He's With Me", "FreakMe", "The Bunny Hole", "Nothing Happened", "CostCutters", Obits (Best Actor-24HFPNY), Kidnapping Oscar Isaac, In Stereo, Shrek the Musical, I Don't Believe in That, and Stand By.

Ryan was a writer/performer with the award-winning NYC based sketch comedy group Honorable Mention and produced, directed and starred in various comedy projects at the PIT as well as providing additional material to shows on Broadway and off-Broadway. He also produced the FringeNYC hit, Rated M for Mature by Greg Ayers in FringeNYC 2012 and FringeNYC Encores. One of his short plays, The Crossover, was produced by UglyRhino Productions for Tiny Rhino at Littlefield in Brooklyn, another short play, Lockdown, was performed by Fairfield Center Stage in their 24 Hour Playathon 2018, and he was one of the writers of Aftermath, a play to raise money for Hurricane Maria relief in Puerto Rico, performed at Cherry Lane Theatre. He's also written an original holiday musical, A Gander Family Christmas with composer Jeffrey Lodin. Ryan serves on the advisory board of the non-profit Only Make Believe which performs therapeutic theatre for children in hospitals and other specialized sites.