Ryan Dobrin

RYAN DOBRIN [he/him] is a queer, biracial New York-based director and producer interested in the exploration of emotional growth, spectacle, otherness, human connection, and morality. He is one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of Obie-winning The Movement Theatre Company, an Embodying Antiracism Initiative guest artist fellow at Wesleyan University, and the director of Those Guilty Creatures. Previous fellowships include The Drama League, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, and an alumnus of the Roundabout Directors Group. Ryan has been an associate/assistant for directors on and off Broadway including Olivier-winner Maria Friedman, Tony-winners Sam Gold, Billy Porter, and Christopher Ashley as well as Trip Cullman, Tyne Rafaeli, and Margot Bordelon. Recent directing includes productions and development with Victory Gardens Theater, Fault Line Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Drama League, Mercury Store, Joe's Pub, University of Michigan, Fordham University, Atlantic Acting School, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing, IRT Theater, The Brick, Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, A4, Playdate Theatre, Ars Nova, and Waterwell. Ryan will be the associate director of Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway this fall. Ryan graduated from Wesleyan University, where he received the Rachel Henderson Theater Prize and the Outreach & Community Service Prize in Theater.