Hannah Ryan | Director

Hannah Ryan | Theatre Director

Hannah Ryan is a freelance theatre director based in Brooklyn, New York. She focuses primarily on new works and reimagined classics often exploring the themes of modern womanhood, native landscapes, and creative grief. She devises plays and theatrical experiences as a means to tell untold stories, particularly those surrounding female identity and choice.

Recent credits include: Broadway Resident Director of Hamilton: An American Musical. Founding collaborator of Nettleworks. Australian Staging Director of An American in Paris.

Director: Gypsy, Love Loss and What I Wore & Sally (Theatre Aspen), Spring Awakening (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music) Sally: A Solo Play (Alabama Shakespeare Festival) Confidence and The Speech (Theatre Row) Riot Song (Drama League/Joe’s Pub) Every Path (La Jolla Playhouse & Moxie Theatre- WoW Festival) Still Life (Keller Gallery) The Guys (NYC site-specific locations commemorating FDNY’s 150th anniversary- Davenport Theatre) Ascended (Zoetic Stage) New York Theatre Workshop Gala (Plaza Hotel), Drama League's 100th Birthday Celebration (54 Below), The Big Announcement (Drama League’s Rough Draft Series) Let’s Misbehave: A Tribute to Cole Porter (Mr. Finn’s Cabaret) Cendrillon and Gianni Schicchi (Point Loma Opera Theatre) Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Forced Marriage, Only in New York, et al (Point Loma Playhouse).  Associate Director: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time on Broadway, Circus in Winter (Goodspeed & Center Ring Theatrical), world premier The Golem of Havana (Barrington Stage Company & Miami New Drama) Assistant Director: Broadway’s Doctor Zhivago and Billy Crystal 700 Sundays (HBO), Christopher Plummer’s A Word or Two (Center Theatre Group and Stratford Festival- Ahmanson Theatre), Fetch Clay, Make Man (New York Theatre Workshop), Sideways and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (La Jolla Playhouse). Chasing the Song, A Dram of Drummhicit and A Midsummer Nights Dream with Christopher Ashley (La Jolla Playhouse), Sleeping Beauty Wakes with Rebecca Taichman (La Jolla Playhouse), God of Carnage and Nobody Loves You (The Old Globe), Kiss Me Kate (Barrington Stage Company) Member of SDC, Drama League Director’s Project Fellow & Resident, SDC Foundation Denham Fellow