Tammy Ryan, Playwright

TAMMY RYAN is a resident playwright of New Dramatists class of 2025. Her work has been performed across the United States and internationally at such theaters as The Alliance Theater, Florida Stage, Marin Theater, People’s Light and Theater Company, Portland Stage Company, Premiere Stages, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, City Theatre Company,  Theatre Lab and 29^th Street Rep among others. Awards and honors include the Francesca Primus Prize for her play Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods, and the American Alliance of Theater in Education’s Distinguished New Play Award for The Music Lesson.  Other plays include Molly’s Hammer (Repertory Theater of St. Louis), Tar Beach (Luna Stage, Kilroy’s List), Soldier’s Heart, FBI Girl How I Learned to Crack My Father’s Code and Baby’s Blues (Pittsburgh Playhouse). Her work has been featured at the National New Play Network’s national showcase and she has been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Steinberg Award.  She’s also been named a finalist or semi-finalist for numerous awards including the Terrence McNally Playwriting Award, Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, Heideman Award and the National Playwrights Conference among others. Ryan has also received fellowships, residencies and grants from the New Harmony Project, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sewanee Writers Conference, the Heinz Endowment, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Sprout Fund.

A long time member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Ryan is on faculty with DGI’s Plays in Progress program. She teaches at universities, in communities and has given master classes in playwriting nationally.  Her work is published by Dramatists Play Service, Broadway Play Publishing, Dramatic Publishing Company and Playscripts.  For more information: www.tammyryan.net