Director
Gummy Worm by Nathaniel Foster; Produced by Nicole Ohara; The New Cosmopolitans/Theater Asylum; Hollywood Fringe Festival, Hollywood, CA – winner of “Producer’s ENCORE Award” – winner of “Pick of the Fringe” – nominated for “Best Comedy”
The Asexual Romance Fantasy Play by Ben M. Jones; The New Cosmopolitans, developmental reading over Zoom
Eye, divisé(e) by Ezequiel González Camaño; The New Cosmopolitans, developmental reading over Zoom
Beauty and the Beast by Linda Woolverton, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and Tim Rice; Escondido Performing Arts Center, CA
How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn; site-specific, Anaheim, CA
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon; site-specific, Anaheim, CA
Hello, Dolly! by Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart; choreographed by Anthony Aceves; Poway High School, Poway, CA
Bye Bye Birdie by Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, and Michael Stewart; Poway High School, Poway, CA
Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein; Poway High School, Poway CA
Les Miserables by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel, and Herbert Kretzmer; Fallbrook Mission Theater, Fallbrook, CA
Annie Warbucks by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan; Fallbrook Mission Theater, Fallbrook, CA
Ruthless! The Musical by Joel Paley and Marvin Laird; Hudson Mainstage, Hollywood, CA
Mirette by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt; Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
One Egg by Babette Hughes; Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Dramaturg
a white haunting by Brian Dang; directed by Nic Few; The New Cosmopolitans, developmental reading over Zoom
The Case of the Town Crier by Eva Grace; directed by Christopher Hudson; The New Cosmopolitans, live production on Zoom
Curator of ‘New Queer Works’ series; featuring work by Nicholas Pilapil, Sam Hamashima, Charlotte Rahn-Lee, Vincent Terrell Durham, and many others; The New Cosmopolitans, developmental readings over Zoom
Script Reader: Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco, CA; Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas TX; Campfire Theater; Garry Marshall Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Assistant Director
Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh, and Joe Darion; directed by Cathy Thomas-Grant; Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Annie Warbucks by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan; directed by Steve Gentry; Murietta Town Hall, Marietta, CA
Training
The Barrow Group, New York, NY – Directing & Acting (ongoing)
Theatrical Intimacy Education (online) – Best Practices for Intimacy Direction
Yale Summer Session, New Haven, CT – Directing Intensive, w/ Evan Yionoulis, Kara-Lynn Vaeni, & Christina Pumariega
SITI Company, New York, NY – Viewpoints & Suzuki
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA – BA, theater
References & select acting credits available upon request.
Ryan Hartley 