Ryan Dobrin

directing credits (productions / concerts)

Ego Show by Keith White / Edinburgh Fringe Festival *
Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy / Montclair State University *
Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine / Yale Dramatic Association
The Voices in Your Head created by Grier Mathiot and Billy McEntee / Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective (September-October 2024), in association with Billy McEntee & Those Guilty Creatures (January 2024 and September-October 2024) / St. Lydia’s
Captain Zuke: A New Glam Rock Musical in Concert by Anna Jastrzembski & Landon Braverman / Joe’s Pub
Geraldine Realigned Drives from Gay Place to Gay Place and You’re in the Car Too created by Cam Cronin & Billy McEntee / The Brick Theater (February 2023, May 2024)
Julian Hornik Alone, with Company / featuring guests Jaquel Spivey, Samantha Williams, Taylor Trensch, & Christian Probst / Joe’s Pub
An Evening with Maria Friedman & Friends (re-staging director) / Tufts University
you don’t have to do anything. by Ryan Drake / presented by Will Arbery / HERE Arts Center
Set Me Free by Mona Mansour / featuring Christian Slater, Clark Gregg, Lola Tung, Michelle Gomez, & Susannah Perkins / 24 Hour Plays [Broadway]
Julian Hornik in Concert / featuring guests John Cameron Mitchell, Jordan Tyson, Zachary Noah Piser, & Khiyon Hursey / Joe’s Pub
To Diana and Mike. Thanks for Everything. E.T. by Guadalís Del Carmen / 24 Hour Plays [Viral Monologues]
you don’t have to do anything. (workshop production) by Ryan Drake / IRT Theater
Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow by Halley Feiffer / University of Michigan
The Homiesexuals: a social media tragedy by Gage Tarlton / short film / producers Those Guilty Creatures, Ryan Kane, & Gage Tarlton (Winner: Best Director, Lavender Film Festival)
A Number by Caryl Churchill / The Drama League [DirectorFest at the ART/NY Theatres]
Continuity by Bess Wohl / Fordham University
The Annihilation of Je$$ie: An Anthology by Hart Fargo / Atlantic Acting School
Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison / New York University [Experimental Theatre Wing]
Conference Room B by Eboni Booth / Atlantic Acting School
Ars Nova Rewind: Vintage Videos / Ars Nova [24-Hour Forever Telethon]
Break Free! Devised / Waterwell & Professional Performing Arts School
Dinner with the Parkers by Kiana English / 24 Hour Plays [Nationals]
It Do Be Like That Sometimes and Sometimes Like That It Do Be by Maxine Dillon / 24 Hour Plays [Viral Monologues]
You and Me and the Space Between by Jack Spagnola / featuring Mark Feuerstein & Michaela Watkins / Playdate Theatre
A Glance Back by Ryan Dobrin / short film / producer Hannah Levin
Spoiled Milk by Eric Grant / QuaranStream Theatre Festival
wanna dance? created by Those Guilty Creatures
Above the Noise by Daphne Gampel / Dixon Place
Dutchman by Amiri Baraka / Access Theater
Baptism by Sam Hamashima / National Queer Theater
She’s a Witch! Devised / The Tank
Elizabethan Evensong adapted from Shakespeare / The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine
Constance & Sinestra and the Cabinet of Screams by Alexandra Spencer-Jones & Patrick Gleeson / Wesleyan University Second Stage
Bat Boy: The Musical by Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley, & Laurence O’Keefe (co-directed with Tekla Monson) / Wesleyan University Second Stage
Peter and the Starcatcher by Rick Elice & Wayne Barker / Wesleyan University Second Stage
21 Chump Street by Lin-Manuel Miranda / Wesleyan University Second Stage

directing credits (workshops / readings)

Mr. Leather, 1976 by Zackary Grady / Fault Line Theatre *
In Praise of Folly by Jacob Wasson / produced by Zach Landes, Jennifer O’Grady, & Zachary Hausman
The Painter and the Thief by Julian Hornik & Ryan Dobrin / featuring Lisa Brescia & Jason Tam / Blue Gallery
Fly to Tomorrow by Joo Young Kim & Byeong Jun Park / English adaptation by William Electric Black / Joo-Da Culture & Evan Bernardin Productions (December 2024 + 2023)
Lewis Loves Clark by Mike Ross & Dylan MarcAurele / NAMT
Melt.Punish by James La Bella / The Civilians
Fury by Levi Strader / Hunter College
The All-Ladies Romance Lovers’ Book Club by Garrett Kim / Quick + Dirty at The Brick
Walk-In by Marco Antonio Rodriguez / The Movement Theatre Company & The Black List
Bride Groom Witness Waitress by May Treuhaft-Ali / Ars Nova (December 2023); Rattlestick Theatre (June 2023)
When You Were Small by AJ Clauss / Playwrights Horizons (June 2023); Ensemble Studio Theatre [Bloodworks] (June 2021)
Courtship by Ryan Drake / New York Theatre Workshop (May 2023); Mercury Store (March 2023)
We Shall Someday by Harrison David Rivers & Ted Shen / Joe’s Pub
backstroke boys by Xavier Clark / Fault Line Theatre [Irons in the Fire]
Captain Zuke by Anna Jastrzembski & Landon Braverman / Open Jar Studios
you don’t have to do anything. by Ryan Drake / Mercury Store
Small Fragments of Becoming created by Ryan Dobrin & Jack Spagnola / NYU [Playwrights Horizons Theatre School] (2022); University of Michigan [Blank Space Workshop] (2021)
Exercise Your Demons: a play on the trauma of a gay male body by Gage Tarlton / movement direction by Breon Arzell / Victory Gardens Theater [Ignition New Play Program] (2022); El Centro Productions (2021)
An Unintentional Search for Friendship by Jack Spagnola / featuring Mark Feuerstein, Jessica Hecht, & Manu Narayan / Williamstown Theatre Festival
interra-bang by Rya Szelong / featuring Midori Francis, Cindy Cheung, & James Saito / Clubbed Thumb
stacey by Jake Brasch / Ensemble Studio Theatre [Bloodworks]
The Ancestry Dot Com Play by Alyssa Haddad / featuring Gabby Beans / Art House Productions
Break by Ruthie Rado / Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective
In the Red, White, and Blue & A Brief History of America by Dipika Guha / Asian American Arts Alliance & American Dream Redux

associate/
ASSISTANT directing (Productions)

The Last Five Years (Associate Director) by Jason Robert Brown / starring Nick Jonas & Adrienne Warren / directed by Whitney White / Hudson Theatre [Broadway] *
Merrily We Roll Along (Associate Director) by Stephen Sondheim & George Furth / starring Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, & Daniel Radcliffe / directed by Maria Friedman / New York Theatre Workshop & Hudson Theatre [Broadway]
Rent (Associate Director) by Jonathan Larson / directed by Zi Alikhan / Paper Mill Playhouse
Corsicana by Will Arbery / directed by Sam Gold / Playwrights Horizons
The Life by David Newman, Ira Gasman, & Cy Coleman, adapted by Billy Porter / directed by Billy Porter / New York City Center [Encores!]
Diana: the Musical (2nd Associate Director) by Joe DiPietro & David Bryan / directed by Christopher Ashley / Longacre Theatre [Broadway]
Row (Associate Director) by Daniel Goldstein & Dawn Landes / directed by Tyne Rafaeli / Audible & WTF (2020) / Williamstown Theatre Festival (2021)
Unknown Soldier by Michael Friedman & Daniel Goldstein / directed by Trip Cullman / Playwrights Horizons
Wives by Jaclyn Backhaus / directed by Margot Bordelon / Playwrights Horizons
OSCAR at The Crown (Associate Director) by Mark Mauriello & Andrew Barret Cox / directed by Shira Milikowsky / Seaview Productions & The Neon Coven at 3 Dollar Bill

* current/upcoming