PERFORMANCE & INTERVIEW
PERFORMANCE ONLY
RYAN RYAN
Ryan Ryan has been enjoying the stage since she was three years old. With dance instruction in ballet, tap, lyrical and jazz at both Ballet Etudes Studio and the Westport YMCA Company dance programs, she has performed in multiple Nutcracker performances at the Westport Country Playhouse, ten annual dance showcases, multiple Wesport Art About Town performances, the opening of the new Westport Library and has competed in more than seventeen multi-discipline regional dance competitions in both solo and group numbers. Ryan began her love of theatre while working with the Westport Community Theatre at age 7. She has studied voice and acting for theatre, film and television at the Music Theatre of Connecticut School of Performing Arts since 2017. Her musical theatre productions include Shrek The Musical, Suessical The Musical, The Jungle Book, The Disney pilot theatre production of The Descendants, Matilda and, most notably, the professional production of Ragtime at the MTC Theatre, where she is currently working on her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Ryan has performed with the a cappella group, Back Track and does annual workshops with Camp A Capella. At age 6, she had her first solo singing performance while playing piano, followed a year later by Le Miserable’s Castle on A Cloud, a cappella in front of her entire school. Ryan is enthusiastic and joyful as she looks forward to an exciting career in theatre.
Coach: Jodi Stevens
Jodi has racked up six Connecticut Drama Circle nominations in three years, in-
cluding, I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, Mazeppa in Gypsy and Masha in Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike, all at MTC. On Broadway, Jodi has appeared as Pam in the Original Company of Urban Cowboy and as Bet/Lucy in the Original Company of Jekyll and Hyde. Jodi is a teacher, mentor, director, voice over artist and, most proudly, mother to 6th grader, Jackson Bryce.
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