Ryan McCurdy
Ryan McCurdy is an award-winning Actor-Musician, Music Director, & Composer based in New York City.
His acting credits include appearances on Broadway stages with Broadway Cares, Off-Broadway, and with theater companies around the US. Recently, he received the 2018 Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role for his work on Greencard Wedding. His long relationship with the musical ONCE includes serving as Music Director and Actor-Musician on the show at Actors’ Playhouse in Miami, FL, and Saint Michael’s Playhouse in Burlington, VT, with two more productions planned for the 2019/2020 season. This love for the show blossomed from his work as a Production Assistant on the original Broadway production.
Ryan’s Music Director and Supervisor credits include work Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club (Important Hats of the Twentieth Century), Second Stage (Friend Art), and Rattlestick Playwrights ({my lingerie play}). His regional credits include Baltimore Center Stage and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. He has worked on multiple occasions with Savannah Rep (Pump Boys and Dinettes, Little Women), in Savannah, GA, where he is also a board member.
As a composer, he has worked in film, television, and theater, most recently scoring Gulfshore Playhouse’s An Iliad and Seanie Sugrue’s film Misty Button. Ryan is a founding member of rock band Bonfire Falls and performs solo as Ryan McCurdy + Arboretum. His previous work has been nominated twice for Innovative Theatre Awards for Outstanding Original Music. He is also a private music teacher in Manhattan and an adjunct Early Childhood faculty member and former curriculum developer for Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
In addition, Ryan is a theatrical consultant and show control designer for museums and attractions across the United States – most recently the American Prohibition Museum in Savannah, GA. He founded and co-produces Front Porch NY, which produces industry readings, free of charge, for playwrights.
Ryan is a twelve-instrument musician and specializes in working with directors and producers to create Actor-Musician opportunities in both new and existing texts, from all creative and administrative angles, and across all types of media.
He is currently under commission by FunikiJam Music, Shakespeare on the Sound, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, and Actors’ Playhouse in Miami, and his acting work can be seen onstage in Pip’s Island in New York.
