Annie Ryan is a multi-award-winning theatre director and actor.
She trained in acting and improvisation at Chicago’s famed Piven Theatre Workshop.
After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she moved to Dublin and founded her company, The Corn Exchange in 1995.
Acting highlights for stage include the title role in Nora adapted from Ibsen’s A Dolls’ House, directed by Eoghan Carrick for Corn Exchange at Dublin Theatre Festival 2017; Anna Petrovna in Chekhov’s First Play, by Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd for Dead Centre at Schaubühne, Berlin and Dublin Theatre Festival 2015.
Other theatre highlights include Blanche in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, directed by Annie Ryan for Corn Exchange, Project Arts Centre; She in Michael West’s A Play on Two Chairs, for Corn Exchange, Dublin Fringe; Martha in Big Bad Woolf, directed by Annie Ryan for Corn Exchange, Dublin Fringe; Colette in Brendan Behan’s The Hostage, directed by Brian Brady, Abbey Theatre and Miranda in The Tempest, directed by Robert Falls, Goodman Theatre.
Screen highlights include Mrs Collins in The Sparrow, directed by Michael Kinirons, Tiger Darling Films 2022; Flahavan in The Drummer And The Keeper, directed by Nick Kelly, D & G Films 2017; Kate in Bachelor’s Walk, directed by John Carney and Tom Hall, RTÉ; Reena in The Last Bus Home, directed by Johnny Gogan Bandit Films; Franny in Three O’Clock High, directed by Phil Joanou, Universal Pictures 1987; Shermerite in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, directed by John Hughes, Paramount Pictures and Angie in Lucas, directed by David Seltzer, Twentieth Century Fox.
