Ian Ryan
Secretary / Treasurer / Trustee
Theatrical: Actor, Director, Playwright
Non-theatrical Professional Experience: Lawyer, Mediator, Small Business Owner, Financial Consultant, Military Veteran
Education: Massachusetts School of Law, J.D., Northeastern University, M.S. Finance. Excelsior College, B.A. Liberal Studies (World Languages and Literature), Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy (PLDC, BNCOC)
Memberships: Dramatist Guild of America, SAB/AFTRA
Email: ian@ianpryan.com
Residence: Harwich, MA
Hometown: Braintree, MA
Spouse: Mark Downey
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Ian Ryan is an actor, director, and playwright with more than twenty-five performances to his credit. He has appeared in regional theaters since finding his voice in 2002, and has since endeavored to make art where he lives. He has written, directed, and produced plays, and served in theater in positions from stagehand to president of a theater board. In addition to deliberately integrating art into his everyday life, he uses his legal, finance, and business management background to create safe and sustainable environments for other artists to thrive.
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Cape Cod Repertory Theatre Company (CapeRep)
The Veterans’ Company at CapeRep
Cotuit Center for the Arts
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Lawyer in boutique firm specializing in business-to-business affairs and consumer protection. Relevant cases include complex litigation; formation and administration of business entities and trusts; sorting and analyzing information from large sets of data; and storytelling: communicating information expositorily and persuasively to clients, opposing parties and Courts, orally and in technical writing.
Mediator specializing in non-directive conflict resolution through which parties may rediscover their power to solve problems on their own.
In a family-owned Cape Cod small business, managing a year-round and seasonal staff of 25, responsible for bookkeeping, auditing, maintaining profit & loss statements and balance sheets, budgeting for ongoing operations, and capital budget projections for proposed new projects.
“‘Find your light’ is a direction actors often hear at a technical rehearsal, where a quarter turn to the left or right integrates the actor with work of the lighting, set, wardrobe, and sound designers, and where all of the underlying work, the actor’s preparation, direction, writing, even the production planning and budgeting, are revealed to an audience as whole, visible, and vital. This is the collaboration where art resides. We are here to find our light.””